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Survey of IndiaBiblio.com

Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920. Confidential. Serial No. 224

1921NL-02287Frontier warfare and colonial cartography: 1921 Survey of India "Confidential" atlas documenting the British campaign in Waziristan.This highly detailed 1921 confidential British-Indian general staff report produced by the Survey of India documents the Waziristan military operations of 19191920 along the volatile frontier of the Northwest Boundary. The publication includes a frontispiece 31 plates seven maps three of which are pocket-folded and eight folding panoramic illustrations that chronicle both the terrain and troop dispositions. The maps provide tactical clarity on routes native strongholds topographic obstacles and British positions. At the same time the accompanying text analyzes operational strategy lessons learned and the emergent use of air power in tribal warfare.Waziristan now in Pakistan had long been viewed by the British as a strategically critical and persistently unstable frontier region inhabited by fiercely autonomous Waziri and Mahsud tribes. The 19191920 campaign followed the Third Anglo-Afghan War during which boundary tensions and local insurrections compelled renewed military intervention. This report presents not just the operational narrative but also the institutional mindset of early 20th-century colonial warfare combining detailed cartography with doctrinal reflection.Cartographers:The Survey of India established in 1767 under Major James Rennell and expanded during British rule served as the paramount cartographic and geodetic agency in India. By 1921 it had become central to mapping the subcontinent for both civil administration and military planning. In this instance the Survey's maps reflect the dual imperative of geographic precision and strategic control making this report an indispensable source for scholars of South Asian military history cartography and colonial frontier dynamics.Condition DescriptionGood. Some wear on cover. Fold lines and some marginal imperfections on maps views and illustrations. Survey of India

Neatline Antique Maps · États-Unis1 400,00 $US≈ 1 184,54 €

Survey of IndiaBiblio.com

Operations in Waziristan 1919 – 1920. Confidential. Serial No. 224

1921NL-02287aFrontier warfare and colonial cartography: 1921 Survey of India "Confidential" atlas documenting the British campaign in Waziristan.This highly detailed 1921 confidential British-Indian general staff report produced by the Survey of India documents the Waziristan military operations of 1919–1920 along the volatile frontier of the Northwest Boundary. The publication includes a frontispiece 31 plates seven maps three of which are pocket-folded and eight folding panoramic illustrations that chronicle both the terrain and troop dispositions. The maps provide tactical clarity on routes native strongholds topographic obstacles and British positions. At the same time the accompanying text analyzes operational strategy lessons learned and the emergent use of air power in tribal warfare.Waziristan now in Pakistan had long been viewed by the British as a strategically critical and persistently unstable frontier region inhabited by fiercely autonomous Waziri and Mahsud tribes. The 1919–1920 campaign followed the Third Anglo-Afghan War during which boundary tensions and local insurrections compelled renewed military intervention. This report presents not just the operational narrative but also the institutional mindset of early 20th-century colonial warfare combining detailed cartography with doctrinal reflection.Cartographers:The Survey of India established in 1767 under Major James Rennell and expanded during British rule served as the paramount cartographic and geodetic agency in India. By 1921 it had become central to mapping the subcontinent for both civil administration and military planning. In this instance the Survey's maps reflect the dual imperative of geographic precision and strategic control making this report an indispensable source for scholars of South Asian military history cartography and colonial frontier dynamics.Condition DescriptionGood. Some wear on cover. Fold lines and some marginal imperfections on maps views and illustrations. Survey of India

Neatline Antique Maps · États-Unis1 400,00 $US≈ 1 184,54 €

Sex Work in IndiaBiblio.com

India Red Light District and Brothel Regulation Photo Archive 1958

1958231781958. Bombay red light district photographs of women seated in brothel doorways gathered in interior rooms and receiving male visitors circa 1958 recording the sex trade as it operated in post independence India under the combined pressures of urban poverty migration and state regulation. Drawn from a merchant marine album and anchored by a source page marked 1958 the group preserves an outsider's view of brothel based sex work at the moment when independent India's Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act had just come into force. British rule had already concentrated prostitution into regulated urban zones in Bombay with districts such as Kamathipura shaped by segregation policing and the management of commercial sex. The 1956 law effective 1 May 1958 targeted brothel keeping procuring and related activities without removing the economic structures that kept poor women in the trade. Photo archive of 17 silver gelatin photographs each 2.75" x 4" Bombay India circa 1958. Several images show women in saris seated on stone thresholds and steps outside narrow ground floor rooms watching the street conversing with one another or facing the camera from darkened doorways. Other photographs move inside the premises where a group of young women pose on a sofa beneath patterned wallpaper one beside a Western man holding a camera while another interior view shows several women crowded before a wall mirror with the same man visible in reflection behind them. Street level exterior views record a worn multistory building with open upper windows shuttered lower bays pedestrians passing and an automobile and hand pulled or cycle traffic in front fixing the brothel within a dense commercial streetscape rather than an isolated interior world. One of the most arresting images shows a white clothed man carrying a tray as he faces several figures in a narrow passage potentially showcasing the work surrounding and upkeeping the trade. The archive belongs to a longer history in which Bombay's sex districts were formed under colonial urban governance and continued after 1947 as sites where caste class migration policing and women's labor met in highly unequal ways. These photographs show the raw historical context of such professions with women waiting at entrances living in cramped quarters and occupying semi public thresholds where domestic space commercial exchange and street visibility collapse into one another. Light surface wear small edge chips and album glue residue en verso. Overall very good condition. The album context fixed 1958 dating and repeated views of the same doorway spaces make this a concise photographic record of brothel based sex work in postcolonial Bombay. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 057,63 €

ROYAL VISIT TO INDIABiblio.com

Special Trains for the Tour of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince & Princess of Wales: Beluchistan and Singh.

1905153020Lahore: Printed at the North Western Railway Press 1905-06. The Raj by rail Lavishly produced souvenirs of a six-month tour of India by the future George V and Queen Mary. Both are scarce: in the UK Cambridge holds a copy of each and we have traced a further copy of Time Table at Leiden. The 1905-06 royal visit was an opportunity for the prince and princess to broaden their imperial experience. The ambitious program included visits by rail to all four corners of India - Peshawar Rangoon Mysore and Karachi - and represented the most wide-ranging survey undertaken in India by any member of the royal family. "As with his father in 1875-6 he the prince was struck by the complacent sense of superiority of many of the white civil servants and on his return made a speech calling for 'a wider sympathy' on the part of the Indian Civil Service" ODNB. The success of the trip set the stage for the couple's return in 1911 for the coronation durbar the only durbar attended by a British monarch. The two brochures cover the legs from Bhatindi to Umballa Cantonment 28 November - 11 December 1905 and Delhi to Karachi Cantonment 8-17 March 1906 the last part of the tour. Besides detailed itineraries each includes views taken along the route such as the tomb of Ranjit Singh at Lahore the tunnel into the Upper Bolan Pass and the Chappar Rift Bridge. Special Trains also has portraits of local inhabitants. Provenance: Herbert Henry Spalding 1874-1943 District Locomotive Superintendent Bhatuda with his address on the mailing envelope. Spalding was born in India his father worked as an engineer on South Indian Railway in the 1870s and 1880s and joined the colonial civil service in 1897. In 1922 he was appointed Locomotive and Carriage Superintendent Indian State Railways retiring in 1929. Though unmarked as such these copies were subsequently owned by Major David Cecil Underwood Jr. 1970-2023 who compiled an extensive collection of material relating to royal visits to India. Two works large octavo ff. 17; ff. 9. Special Trains with 12 collotype views laid down on leaves with printed captions and ornamental borders 5 letterpress leaves; Time Table with 12 collotype views mounted 2-to-a-page on leaves with printed captions and ornamental borders 3 letterpress leaves. Both printed in blue and gold internally and interleaved with tissue guards. Original decorative wrappers printed in gold and lettered in blue stitched with blue cord Special Trains glued into wrappers as issued. With original envelope 300 x 195 mm. Covers lightly creased and soiled more so to rear wrapper of Time Table cockling caused by mounting adhesive as usual collotypes well preserved: very good copies. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni1 850,00 £GB≈ 2 112,33 €