DURBAR, a term in India for a court or levee, from the Persian darbar. A durbar may be either a council for administer ing affairs of state, or a purely ceremonial gathering. In the former sense the native rulers of India in the past received vis itors and conducted business in durbar. A durbar is the execu tive council of a native state. In the latter sense the word has come to be applied to great ceremonial gatherings like Lord Lyt ton's durbar for the proclamation of the queen empress in India in 1877, or the Delhi durbar of 1911.