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19332588<p>No Publisher. An album of mainly pen and ink sketches of India; 4to. The sketches include portraits: of a Sikh Warrior A Daughter of Kashmir A Gurkha Family and monuments such as The Hiran Minar or Elephant Tower and Toers of Silence. The album also includes artist's notes on various subjects including Indian punishment and execution jugglers snake charmers and many more. There 31 drawings in total. The album has had some professional restoration to the spine.</p> No Publisher
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. <br /> 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.<br /> 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
1964BIBLIO-01781G. K. Hall & Co Boston 1964 reprint. 10 vols cloth folio 358 x 260 mm. pp. About 90000 entries. A massive catalogue of the printed books in European languages in the India Office Library including many rarities and very comprehensive coverage of material on the British Raj. The European Printed Books collection was originally part of the library set up by the Honourable East India Company in 1801 to safeguard books entrusted to it by its servants and others. The Company's Directors soon began to collect actively rather than just receiving material and from the outset made their stock available to orientalist scholars as well as maintaining and augmenting it as an official reference resource. After the demise of the Company in 1858 its responsibilities were taken over by the newly-established India Office and coverage started to concentrate on material relating to the Indian sub-continent and its affairs together with those of Burma. The European Printed Books collection holds a considerable amount of extremely rare Indian and UK material and is the primary repository for material on the history of British India. Contents : Vols 1-2: Sheaf catalogue A-Z. Vols 3 - 6: Author catalogue A-Z. Vols 7 - 9 : Subject catalogue A-Z. Vol 10: Catalogue of periodicals. Accessions until 1936 were included in an Author catalogue in sheaf form in which entries from twenty-two volumes of uncumulated printed catalogues and printed supplementary accessions lists were pasted in a single alphabetical sequence. In 1936 the cataloguing system was reorganised; all subsequent accessions were entered in two card catalogues one Author the other Subject. The present work accordingly reproduces a the whole of the Author sheaf catalogue containing accessions to 1936 in Volumes 1 and 2 and b in Volumes 3-9 the Author and Subject card catalogues containing accessions from 1936 to the end of 1963 together with some recatalogued pre-1936 accessions and c periodical publications as a separate sequence at the end of the Author card catalogue Volume 10. A Very Good ex-library set. The library markings are :stamps on top and bottom edges small spine labels and partly removed labels from the front free endpapers. Otherwise Very Good some covers a little scuffed. G. K. Hall & Co, Boston, 1964 reprint hardcover
192927467Filed O brown small: Church of England Zenana Missionary Society 1929. Paperback. Used: Acceptable. Condition fair pages brown age spots to pages page edges dusty name on front cover. Church of England Zenana Missionary Society paperback
192014589John Murray 1920. Sm. 8vo. Tenth Edition on India Paper with 38 folding coloured maps 11 full-page maps and plans a number coloured numerous illustrations plans and tables several full-page in the text and a very large folding coloured map mounted on cloth in pocket at rear some mild offsetting to blank preliminaries endpapers very lightly age-soiled; handsomely bound in full crushed red morocco BY HATCHARDS upper board lettered in gilt back with five shaped raised bands second compartment lettered in gilt all edges gilt wide gilt doublures elaborately tooled in gilt with a floral border enclosing multiple frames laid paper endpapers red yellow and green silk head- and tail-bands red buckram pocket a splendid and ornate copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. IT WAS COMMISSIONED BY GUY WESTMACOTT WHOSE NAME IS LETTERED IN GILT ON FRONT BOARD this could well be Guy Randolph Westmacott of the Grenadier Guards. A SPLENDID AND UNIQUE COPY OF THE ONE OF THE BEST EDITIONS OF THE FINEST TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO INDIA AND SURROUNDING REGION. VERY SCARCE IN ANY CONDITION. John Murray, hardcover
1902142564New York: Underwood & Underwood Publishers 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. New York Underwood & Underwood Publishers 'Copyright 1902' to 'Copyright 1907' a date within this range is printed on the recto of each item with the majority 1902 and 1903. Each pair of sepia-toned gelatin silver photographs is mounted on the publisher's dark grey card with an English-language caption underneath the photograph; an abridged version is repeated in six languages on the verso of all but 16 cards which are blank. The size of the arch-topped prints is approximately 80 × 78 mm; the card size is 88 × 178 mm. The condition of all photographs is uniformly fine; four cards have a crease down the centre but the rest are in fine condition. The set comes with the publisher's cloth-covered double bookform box lettered 'India Underwood and Underwood' on both spines cloth a little rubbed and lightly worn at the extremities. The cards are numbered 1-100 on the recto; many also have a four-digit number as well. In addition to the brief captions in six languages on the verso 81 cards also have lengthy captions in English on the verso 79 are printed down the length of the card when it is in portrait format; the other two are printed across the card when it is in landscape format. 100 items. Underwood & Underwood, Publishers hardcover
1902172129London : HMSO Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode 1902. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in gilt-blocked bucjram boards. Near fine copy in half aniline calf over buckram boards with R. G. Duff in gilt block; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Ex-libris copy with bookplates remaining ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 166 pages; Description: v 166 p. : tabs. ; 32 cm. Subjects: Great Britain --India Office --Archives --Bibliography --Catalogs --Bombay India --Politics and government --Sources London : HMSO, Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode hardcover
19038569<p>First edition of this rather extraordinary survey of Curzon's many appearances in caricature in Hindi Punch and other Indian comic papers where he often appears in Indian dress and frequently as various Hindu deities notably Ganesh. 'This unpretentious little book is offered as a humble souvenir of the Delhi Durbar: in its pages our popular Viceroy as representative in the great Coronation Durbar of the greatest monarch of modern times is the central figure. In a land of her-worship it is not to be marvelled that the energy versatility and strong personality of Lord Curzon added to his many loveable traits should lend themselves easily to the genius of the Indian artist for caricaturing' author's Preface.</p><p>Despite this warm introduction Curzon was subject to both approval and dissent through these images. The satire of British comic publications like Punch was enthusiastically appropriated by Indian artists - and India itself was frequently represented through the figure of Mr Punch - though their caricatures were also influenced by Indian artists such as Raja Ravi Varma. It is a fascinating fusion.</p><p>4to 248 × 158 mm pp. 2 2 48 4 adverts for Hindi Punch etc plus lithograph forntispiece numerous caricatures to text. Original lithographic boards. Slightly rubbed and soiled hinge cracked and backstrip rather crudely but effectively repaired with tape.</p> [Tatva-Vivechaka Press and lithographed at Ajinkya Art P. Works for] Babajee Sakharam & Co,
1961232281961. Southern India photo album documenting an international Christian missionary medical group around Vellore Karigiri Katpadi and Kanchipuram in 1961 many photographs captioned and identify individuals. The album showcases how missionary labor operated after the end of British rule through hospitals training schools religious ceremony and organized visits into village and temple spaces. Compiled by a French speaking participant within an international Christian medical network the album centers on institutions linked to Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore where foreign and Indian personnel worked inside a system first developed under colonial era Protestant missions and then carried forward in postcolonial India through education nursing public health and evangelical presence.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 110 Silver gelatin photographs mounted in a leather bound album most photos measure 3" x 4" album measures 9" x 12" Vellore Karigiri Katpadi Polambakkam and Kanchipuram Tamil Nadu dated by captions to 1961. Many identified individuals. Captioned pages identify "Vellore CMCH" "Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore" and a "Soirée de remise du voile aux infirmières étudiantes de dernière année Sept. 61" showing large indoor assemblies of Indian nursing students in uniform at a veil ceremony for final year nurses. Other pages name hospital streets a guest house pavilion postman colleagues and an international group including participants identified by nationality including Argentina Belgium Venezuela Australia Thailand the United States England and South India. The album also moves beyond the hospital into the surrounding countryside and sacred landscape with rice cultivation and field irrigation at Karigiri village huts pastoral scenes cattle and goats potters fuel collection pigs and ducks a cyclist returning from Sunday mass the cathedral at Katpadi and multiple views of temples and priests at Kanchipuram. Handwritten French captions guide the viewer through these scenes including "inner courtyard of a temple" "Hindu priest explaining a point of his religion" "signing the temple guest book and giving the offering" and observations of sculpture yogis village labor and local children.<br /> The 19th to early 20th century saw an increase in Protestant missionary organizations in India with schools hospitals and women's medical training programs as response both to evangelical ambition and to colonial inequalities in health care access. By 1961 India was politically independent yet this album shows how missionary medicine still organized relations between Western visitors Indian Christian institutions and local Tamil communities. Overall very good condition. A strong record of postcolonial missionary medicine in southern India showing how colonial religious systems survived through healthcare education and cross cultural authority rather than formal imperial rule alone. unknown
1954293238Dehra Dun : Survey of India 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked cloth edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight bright and clean impression. Complimentary copy from the Surveyor General of India. Physical description; xii 534 p. : ill. maps ; 30 cm. Notes; Complimentary copy from the Surveyor General of India sent to Arthur Jaffe with the receipts. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Survey of India. Surveying India History. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. Dehra Dun : Survey of India hardcover
1914951F7London: The Government of India by John Murray 1914 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 9.5". Not Stated. The very scarce first edition of this richly illustrated account of George V's 1911 visit to entia to take part in the Imperial Durbar in Delhi. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece eight colour plates two photogravures forty-four collotypes and numerous monochrome plates alongside four plans one of which is folding.Collated complete.With the bookplate of Christopher J. E. Jarchow to the front pastedown.The Delhi Durbar or Imperial Durbar was a mass assembly organized by the British at Coronation Park Delhi India to mark the succession of an Emperor or Empress of India. Also known as the Imperial Durbar it was held three times in 1877 1903 and 1911 at the height of the British Empire. The 1911 Durbar was the only one that a sovereign George V attended. It took pace in December 1911 to honour King George V and Queen Mary's coronation in Britain a few months prior and to proclaim their titles of Emperor and Empress of India. All Indian princely state kings and governors were called to pay respect.This work in great detail depicts this display of imperial power during the British Raj and includes detailed itineraries speeches and illustrations of this defining event of Colonial India. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Light spotting to perimeters of front board with a touch of fading to centre of rear board. Light spotting to text block fore edge. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good The Government of India by John Murray hardcover
1907011405Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing India 1907. Book measures 33.5x21.cm. iiivi 40pp. Bound in original publishers printed boards. Boards rubbed sellotaped spine library labels and withdrawal stamp. Binding in good condition. Internally occasional library stamp or mark. Pages in good clean condition. A good clean copy. . Hard Cover. Good Plus. Quarto. Superintendent of Government Printing India Hardcover
191720036Clarendon Press Oxford 1917. 8vo. First Edition with coloured frontispiece 14 plates 5 full-page maps in the text and 3 folding maps on japon title lightly dust-soiled; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers ribbon marker custom-made-slip-case an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF SIR REGINALD SPENCE AND BEARS HIS FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE- DOWN. IT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY PRESENTED BY SPENCE TO THE LIBRARY OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL SCHOOL HORSHAM AND BEARS THAT INSTITUTION'S PRESENTATION BOOKPLATE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Sir Reginald Spence prominent merchant philanthropist and educationalist spent much of his career in India. He was a prominent wine merchant Master of the Worshipful Company of Distillers 1949-1950 and an eminent freemason District Grand Master of Bombay and Northern India; the Lodge Reginald Spence was founded in his memory. A fervent educationalist he co-founded Barnes School in Devlavi one of the finest institutions of its type in Western India where a school house now bears his name. A NOTABLE ASSOCIATION COPY OF A WORK SELDOM FOUND IN THE ORIGINAL EDITION. Clarendon Press, Oxford, hardcover
1915AQ27136Ranikhet: Abdulla Khan photographer 1915. 24 black and white photographs mounted on twelve leaves. Sewn as issued in original publisher's printed red wrappers. Rubbed and creased a trifle bowed. An unrecorded publication comprised of 24 evocative photographs primarily group shots of members of the 1/4th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry whilst stationed at Bareilly Uttar Pradesh during the first year of the Great War. 1/4th Battalion formed in Truro made up part of the Devon and Cornwall Brigade in Wessex Division. They sailed for India late 1914 and landed in Bombay on 10th November 1914 and remained there until 1916 where they moved to Aden 1916-1917 and then finished out the war in Egypt 1917-1918. . Oblong 8vo. [Abdulla Khan, photographer] unknown
190621207831906. Gale & Polden Ltd. London Offices and Warehouse Aldershot Stores Bombay. 1906. Royal 8vo. Colour-printed card wrappers; pp. xiv 31 four colour illustrations after paintings on 2 leaves of plates highly illustrated after photographs in the text; spotting to wrappers inside of lower wrapper with small abrasure internally very good.This extremely rare publication by the military printers and publisher Gale and Polden in Aldershot opens with the detailed schedule of the Royal visit from their landing in Chennai on the 24th of January until their departure from Hyderabad on the 10th of February and a visit to Ellora Caves on Friday the 16th. This publication covers only a small part of the Royal tour which in total lasted from November 1905 to March 1906 and we assume this sovenir was published for the members of tf the Army and Navy who where engaged in safeguarding and as entourage. The bulk of this souvenir describes life work and pastimes in Army and Navy.We were not able to trace any copy institutionally or commercially nor is this publication referred to in any text known to the internet. unknown
1913185139Lahore: Printed at the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press 1913. The 1913 edition of this handbook with guidance on camping fishing shooting and other matters. Readers are also warned against felling trees for firewood and against gifting or selling guns to any subject of the maharaja not licensed to carry firearms. The Kashmir visitor rules were first issued in 1806. Institutional searches show small holdings of a range of editions but no copies of this 1913 publication. Small octavo. Original green hexagonally grain cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Spine sunned light wear a few pages dog-eared: near-fine. hardcover
190343874London: Adam and Charles Black 1903. First edition Copy Number 173 of 1000 signed by Mortimer Menpes. 100 Plates. The illustrations have been engraved and printed at the Menpes Press under Mr. Menpes's direction. 210 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Cream cloth some wear at bottom front joint inner hinges started. First edition Copy Number 173 of 1000 signed by Mortimer Menpes. 100 Plates. The illustrations have been engraved and printed at the Menpes Press under Mr. Menpes's direction. 210 pp. 1 vols. 4to. The first Durbar was held in 1877 to proclaim Queen Victoria as Empress of India. This is the second Durbar to proclaim Edward VII as king in 1902 but was not attended by the King either. It was not until the 1911 Durbar when George V and Queen Mary went to India was the Emperor and his Empress proclaimed in person to the people of India. Our authors stayed in Camp Number One called "The Millionaires' Camp." in Delhi. <br /> <br /> With an ALS from Menpes tipped in at the back. Inman #18 Adam and Charles Black unknown
1915231261915. Very good condition. A photograph album memorializing two trips made by an English woman Mrs. K. Haig throughout Europe then to India to visit her son Major W. de W. Haig a British officer and his wife. It concludes with "Pictures taken during the War at 'Louviciennes'" including an image of the Chateau des Voisins now the BNP Paribas campus. <br /> <br /> The first half of the album begins in 1909 with the departure of the ship "Yale" based in Bath with an American flag to the European continent. Another ship listed is possibly the "Bleucher". Places visited include Berlin Potsdam Sans Souci Dresden the Royal Gardens at Nieder-Siedlitz Munich Lucerne Pilatus Berne Murren Zermatt Geneva Lyons Avignon Arles Nimes Montpelier Tours Chenenceaux Chateau de Lude Aise le Rideau Villandry Fontainebleau St. Cloud Chantilly & Versailles. <br /> <br /> The second half of the album is entitled " 'India' From Pictures By Major W. de W. Haig". These include Kashmir Naini Tal Muktesar Srinagar Dehra Dun and the Khyber Pass. Major Haig took some lovely and at times atmospheric images of the people of India including a papier mache worker women grinding corn men sewing with a sewing machine on the curbside; candy shop in the bazaar Mrs. K. Haig "travelling in a 'Dandy' on men's heads" on the way to Muktesar wood gatherers a pair of men using a long bowed saw Indians in small boats at the shore of a lake surrounded by mountains. There are also extensive images of their bungalow at Lucknow and "Beaucaire" the home of Major and Mrs. Haig 31 Rajpur Rd Dehra Dun. looking very grand residences!. The sign at the Khyber Pass taken with their automobile states "It is absolutely forbidden to cross this border into Afghan Territory."<br /> <br /> The last 4 pages are photographs taken at Louviciennes outside of Paris the first a group of 8 with 5 identified as Mons. Fournier Major Haig and his wife Mdme & Mons. Gelis-Didot. Gelis-Didot may be Pierre Gelis-Didot author of "Hotels et Maisons de Paris/ Facadea et Details" published in 1893. He was celebrated for his architectural drawings. There is a picture of the "Chateau des Voisins" now the BNP Paribas campus. and then a series of images of tea at the Fornier's where the visitors pose with a massive bomb shell presumably to emphasize the fire power of the French. They appear content with little recognition of the pain and suffering soon to be rained down on them all. <br /> <br /> Albumen and silver gelatin prints 112 images of Europe generally 3 3/4" square and 4 1/2 x 3 1/2". 54 images of India varying from 4 5/8 x 3 1/2" to 6 x 8 5/8" with most 4 1/2 x 6". 14 images of Louviciennes 11 quite small 2 x 2 1/2" the 1/4 x 3 1/2". Captioned below and sometimes within the margin of images. Album 8 1/4 x 10 1/4" black original cloth gilt "Photographs" on the front board spine slightly faded. 50 leaves photographs on both sides of the pages. unknown
1945819981945. Varying sizes and formats the majority being 8cm x 5.5cm with some larger format images being no larger than 12cm x 8.5cm. The majority in Very Good condition or better with a couple of images having some abrasions to verso some marginal creasing and in one instance a triangle of loss to the border. A compact and informative group of images the majority with detailed verso captions from an American serviceman a long way from home.<br /> <br /> One of the most strategically important but now somewhat marginalized initiatives of the later stages of WW2 was the vitally important China-Burma-India resupply route. A phenomenal effort was made to ensure seamless movement of troops and materials in defiance of the ebb and flow of Japanese occupations and blockades throughout the theater of war between 1943 and 1945. <br /> <br /> Originally allied forces held control of what came to be called "Stilwell Road" running from Ledo through to Kunming in China via Burma this ground route proved subject to a number of issues not least of which was Japanese aggression so an initiative was developed to allow the air transport of vital resources between the rapidly constructed Dinjan airfield in Assam where our G.I. is stationed and the distribution points in China and Burma. <br /> <br /> This important piece of military and indeed civilian co-ordination was carried out by a number of units; initially the India Air Task Force the majority of which became the U.S. Tenth Air Force with additional allied units ranging from British RAF to the legendary China National Aviation Corporation CNAC. <br /> <br /> This collection includes an image of Captain Enos Claire Kirkpatrick of the CNAC captioned "One swell fellow" which is notable mainly for his participation in the gradual evolution of the CNAC into the Civil Air Transport and subsequently into the CIA backed Air America for whom Kirkpatrick flew support missions to Dien Bien Phu and a number of other conflict torn South East Asian destinations before his retirement in 1966. Very much a 'cowboy' operation during WW2 with a number of the CNAC pilots being ex- Flying Tigers it later became a more streamlined and well supplied arm of U.S. military intelligence. CNAC was also distinctive for being made up of U.S. and Chinese pilots and crew flying together performing 38000 missions between 1942-1945. <br /> <br /> A number of other units operated out of Assam during this period including the 443rd Troop Carrier Group the 44th Service group represented in this collection the 3rd Combat Cargo Group and the 1080th QM Quartermaster Company. Which unit our GI belonged to or was seconded to is unclear the situation at Dinjan seems to have been fairly fluid and informal with the risky and rather impetuous nature of running missions "Over The Hump" as the Himalaya crossing was referred to lending itself to some fairly esoteric variations on traditional military roles and conventions. <br /> <br /> An unofficial grouping of images with many of the photos seeming to have been sent to a sweetheart back home with brief explanations of the content. There are numerous depictions of things that would naturally fascinate a U.S. serviceman positioned in Northern India: the Nimtollah burning ghats temples the Calcutta racetrack street scenes in Assam and Calcutta snake charmers beggars small reminders of home like the Red Cross "Donut Bebe" who ran a truck offering donuts and coffee every other day on base the building of a company bar and rec room the eccentric 1st Lieutenant various Fakirs C-47 transport planes flying low over the river and the day-to-day of base life. <br /> Also present in the captions are some observations on Indian culture ranging from the complimentary to the mystified; our PFC clearly and unsurprisingly had no grasp of India's caste system and few reference points for the complex social structures through which he wandered looking for excitement and distraction. An additional point on this largely forgotten wartime effort is that it inadvertently assured U.S. domination of the post-war international airline industry with a large number of the decommissioned transports subsequently being sold off and refitted for civilian air use. unknown
1943234951943. Indian famine crisis press archive depicting hunger relief work and public unrest from Bengal famine conditions through later food riots in independent India. The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated three million people and food scarcity remained politically volatile in India for decades afterward. Street demonstrations over grain rationing and hunger drew police deployments in multiple cities turning food access into a public order crisis as well as a humanitarian emergency.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 7 silver gelatin press photographs mostly measuring 8" x 10" India 1943-1964. Crowds gather outside food distribution points children sit with metal bowls during feeding mounted police face demonstrators and uniformed officers move through dense street scenes. Press captions identify Calcutta famine conditions food rioters dispersed by police in Kerala fighting and fire in Lucknow and relief activity for famine victims. Typed captions identify "food rioters" being dispersed outside the Travancore state government house in Trivandrum Kerala where police and mounted officers filled the street after looting over food. Another caption describes Lucknow fighting in which "rioters set fire to about a six-block square" with crowds massed near burning buildings and shopfront signs. Calcutta scenes show famine victims clustered around relief vessels and feeding bowls with one caption stating that people had been "reduced to skin and bone" after food shortages. A street-side feeding scene shows children and adults crouched in rows with metal dishes receiving food from a man holding a large bucket.Verso stamps include Acme Newspictures NEA reference markings New York Bureau labels editor crop marks typed captions and publication dates.<br /> <br /> The group connects famine mortality postwar scarcity and street protest in India across a period when food distribution became a central test of colonial and postcolonial government authority. Press handling wear caption remnants crop marks corner creasing and scattered surface marks; overall in very good condition. A strong press group linking famine relief imagery with the public unrest that followed hunger into India's mid-century political life. unknown
1940232161940. British India photo archive following an unidentified man likely a serviceman in Mhow and Mandu during World War II 1942-1943 preserving a localized record of colonial wartime life through mess scenes sport staff bungalows named companions imposed colonial social frameworks and visits to the major Islamic monuments of Mandu. The captions place the central figure in the company of "Carroll Sahib" Ken Davis and other men in uniform-style dress while repeated references to the "mess" weapon training staff and cantonment-like grounds situate the photographs within a British colonial wartime environment in central India. The group shows one participant moving between military or officer-adjacent daily life and the monumental landscape of Mandu at a moment when India remained a crucial base of Allied wartime activity.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 43 silver gelatin photographs ranging from 2 x 3.5 to 2.5 x 2.5 inches Mhow and Mandu India 1942-1943. Most photographs bear substantial contemporary handwritten inscriptions on the versos often dated. Identifiable scenes include two men with tennis rackets outside a bungalow captioned as taken after tennis; a portrait inscribed "Me the Carroll Sahib & Ken Davis outside the Mess 25/12/42"; a group of eight men captioned "two scotsmen our four weapon training instructors the Carroll Sahib me outside the W/T staff bungalow 25/12/42"; men wearing garlands outside the mess; a sports or gymkhana ground with riders or runners in formation; tented grounds beside a large building; and a portrait of a man identified as "Machdo our bearer." The architectural and landscape views are closely tied to Mandu with captions naming the Jami Masjid Jahaz Mahal Rupmati's Pavilion Baz Bahadur's Palace mosque interiors courtyards pools lake views ravines and elevated plateaus. Several photographs show men posed on open parade or sports grounds in light uniform-style dress including group portraits outside the mess and the W/T staff bungalow with tennis rackets bicycles garlands and temporary tent lines indicating a social world organized around exercise communal dining and station routine. Other images turn to Mandu's built landscape in much greater detail with framed views of domed pavilions arcaded courtyards carved entrances long interior corridors water tanks and palace ruins seen from terraces lakesides and elevated lookouts. The landscape scenes broaden that record further including steep ravines river and waterfall views and plateau panoramas that place the serviceman's movements within the wider terrain of central India.<br /> <br /> During World War II Mhow remained an important cantonment in British India and these photographs place one serviceman within the daily social world of that station where tennis communal dining staff housing local attendants and holiday gatherings existed alongside travel to nearby historic sites. The Mandu views record the same hand moving through one of central India's best-known Sultanate monument complexes with captions naming the Jami Masjid Jahaz Mahal Rupmati's Pavilion Baz Bahadur's Palace and associated interiors courtyards pools and landscape features. Light general wear occasional silvering and minor handling marks; inscriptions strong and legible on most versos. The dense captioning and photographic record show British colonial India during World War II through the the personal lens colonial rank and language staff organization sport and leisure during wartime Indian attendants and movement through one of central India's historic architectural landscapes. unknown
1941208861941. Archive of photographs and documents from the A.P. Mission City School in Ambala Punjab 1941-1942 documents girls' education within a missionary institution during the late colonial period and the Second World War. The material records classroom instruction extracurricular activity and community interaction alongside written accounts by an American missionary teacher Anita Gregson whose correspondence and annual report situate the school within wartime conditions and broader educational initiatives. The archive provides primary evidence of how girls' education was structured and experienced in northern India under British rule including literacy training vocational activity and the integration of local and missionary communities.<br /> <br /> Twenty two black and white and sepia photographs measuring approximately 2 x 3 to 3 x 5 inches many with handwritten or typed captions on verso likely by Anita Gregson; accompanied by one typed letter dated June 14 1942 and one annual report for the 1941-1942 school year. Photographs depict students in classroom settings including a "training class girl teaching a second grade nature study class" as well as scenes of recreation such as a badminton club for teachers and missionaries. Additional images show students engaged in craft work including one captioned "Achcheri. with her patch quilt" alongside views of village life in Punjab with oxen carts textile work and local architecture. Three photographs document refugees traveling toward Pakistan in the years following the Lahore Resolution. Gregson's letter references wartime uncertainty noting concerns about possible bombing in India while the annual report details financial strain fundraising efforts and adult literacy instruction for women.<br /> <br /> Created during a period of political tension and transition in British India when wartime mobilization coincided with growing nationalist movements and debates over independence the archive situates education within both imperial and local frameworks. The documentation of women's literacy and schooling aligns with broader efforts that contributed to gradual increases in female education prior to independence and the Partition of India. As a combined photographic and documentary record the material supports research into gender education colonial institutions and everyday life in wartime South Asia. Minor wear consistent with handling; manuscript and printed materials remain legible; overall very good condition. unknown
