Panoramic view of Gift museum of Rashtrapati bhavan, in Delhi

From the archive record

On display in this Hall is King George V's silver chair weighing 640 kg on which he sat at the Delhi Durbar 1911, an embroidered gold wire brocade, paintings by Thomas Daniell & Samuel Havett and a host of gifts received by different Presidents. Museum has etchings of Thomas Daniel and William Daniel and autographed photographs of several Heads of States. Also on display are a number of gift items received by the President during visits abroad or during India and from visiting Heads of State at New Delhi including a dry sunflower which adorned the mortal remains of Mahatma Gandhi on January 31, 1948, 1 K.M. long thread of superfine Khadi spun by a weaver in Nadia Dist. (West Bengal), the 640 Kg. silver chair used by King Emperor at the Delhi Durbar in 1911-12. Rashtrapati Bhavan is the off