Britain seeks a 'new special relations

摘要

In the distant past, India marked British state visits with great fanfare, even altering the urban fabric to indelibly mark the trace of a historic regal procession. For the Prince of Wales' tour in 1876, Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II ordered all Jaipur's buildings to be painted pink (hence the 'Pink City' sobriquet); and Bombay created a waterfront monument to commemorate the arrival of King George V in 1911.