Turbans Collection

British India - East Bengal - Barisal - Indian Army unit and the British Governor and his wife. Barisal fell under the Bengal Nawabs, then colonial British India

DREADNOUGHT HOAX
VIRGINIA WOOLF as a young woman, with Duncan Grant, Adrian Stephen, Anthony Buxton, Guy Ridley and Horace Cole as " The Emperor of Abyssinia and His Suite"

George V and Mary, Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
King George V and Queen Mary sitting on their imperial thrones on the day following the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India

Egypt - Old Egyptian men at prayer

Wounded Indian Troops - Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Indian soldiers wounded in action during the First World War, convalesce in the Royal Pavilion at Brighton

Colonialism / Lord Curzon
GEORGE NATHANIEL, MARQUESS Lord Curzon of Kedleston with the Maharaja of Rewa and Captain Wigram " in the jungle with his bag of tigers"

Edward VIII Hunting
EDWARD VIII, When Prince of Wales, photographed in India with some of the Bag after a successful days Pig Sticking (hunting wild boar)

Edward VIII & Patailas
EDWARD VIII When Prince of Wales, meeting Pataila soldiers who lost limbs whilst on active service during World War One

Sir Henry Havelock / Davie
SIR HENRY HAVELOCK British soldier relieving Lucknow in 1857

Three Sikh men, India. Date: 1843

Indian Rice Merchants, Rangoon, Myanmar (Burma)
Indian Rice Merchants (Lakhmichand Manikchand) in Rangoon, Myanmar (Burma) - note the slightly cheeky bit of advertising by the Insurance Broker in the front row

Chitral Expedition
Members of the Chitral Expedition, including Lieut. Cheyne, Capt. C.R Ross, Major Sawyer, Capt. Gordon, Lieut. Henderson and a Sikh priest. 14th Ferozepore Sikhs. Date: April 13 1895

London Life front cover with Paris fashions
Front cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

Lord Kitchener reviewing Indian Troops - WWI
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, (1850 - 1916), a British Field Marshal, diplomat and statesman, reviewing Indian troops - World War one era

Poster depicting Colombo, Ceylon
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting dock workers loading and unloading cargo at Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Bus service, Khewra, Punjab, British India
Bus service on a street in Khewra, a salt mining district in Punjab, British India (now in Pakistan). Date: 1933

Sikh soldiers resting in a French building, WW1
Sikh soldiers (regiment unidentified but likely to be The 15th Sikhs) resting in a building on the Western Front during the First World War

Turkish Zeibek warriors - Izmir, Turkey. Zeibeks or sometimes Zeybeks were irregular militia and guerilla fighters living in the Aegean Region of the Ottoman Empire. Date: 1901

Peshawar - Pathan Tribesmen with rifles (matchlocks)

Military Siege India 17C
Indian General receives the key of a besieged town as a token of surrender

Group of Marathas during the Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1819), between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire, India. Date: 1818

Hindu Shrine at edge of Street in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan (at this stage still in Northern India). Date: circa 1910s

Indian Native Doctors at Hampton Court Palace, June 1902. Date: 1902

Sikh Soldiers - 15th Regiment - at Hampton Court Palace Date: 1902

Legend of the Moor's Last Sigh. After the conquest of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, the Muslim king Boabdil and his entourage were exiled from the city in 1492

Tiger hunt in India Date: circa 1910

Interior of the Indian Palace, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Interior of the Indian Palace, Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

British India Indian Empire Colonial Colonialism
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Surrender of Asirghar Fort, India, 9 April 1819, bringing an end to the Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1819). Date: 1819

Rescue of Lieutenant-Colonel Macgregor Murray, Battle of Talneir (Talnar, Thalner), India, 1818, part of the Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1819). Date: 1818

Reception of the hostages from Tipu Sahib, Sultan of Mysore, by Lord Cornwallis, March 1792. Tipus two sons, aged about ten and eight

Flight of Hyder Ali, ruler of Mysore in Southern India, after the Battle of Porto Novo (now Parangipettai), between the British East India Company and the Sultanate of Mysore, 1 July 1781

Turkish Musicians at Principio, Buyukada, Turkey
Turkish Musicians at Principio, Buyukada island, Turkey Date: 1829

Rajputs on horseback, Rajasthan, northern India. Date: 1843

Two chieftains of the Kutch Province, north-west India. Date: 1843

Mahratta (Maratha) ethnic group of peasant warriors, India. Date: 1843

Amirs of Scinde, ethnic group from Sindh, India
Amirs (commanders) of Scinde, an Indian ethnic group from Sindh (now a province of Pakistan). Date: 1843

Colonial hunting group, India, including " Eva and her fiancÚó¼ 2 February 1923. Date: 1923

Water carrier handing a drink to seated man, Egypt
Water carrier handing a drink in a brass cup to a seated man, Egypt. Date: 1922

Camel rider in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, Central Asia
Camel rider, a tribesman from the desert, shopping in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Date: 1922

Shia Moslem leader, Southern Arabia
Shia Moslem leader, Seyid Mustapha el Idrisi, Southern Arabia. He is claimed to be a descendant of Fatima, Mahomets daughter, who married the martyred Ali. 1922

Musician with guitar, Algeria, North Africa. Date: 1922

Two young Afghan hillmen, Afghanistan. Date: 1922

Lalla Rookh, oriental romance by Thomas Moore
Illustration to Lalla Rookh, an oriental romance by Thomas Moore. 1817

Women of Tina (Tinos) island, Greek Archipelago
Women of Tina (Tinos), an island of the Greek Archipelago (Cyclades Islands, Aegean Sea). circa 1790

Walter de Monbary, Grand Master of the Knights Templars
Walter de Monbary (Montbarry), Grand Master of the Knights Templars, illustration to a novel by Benedikte Naubert. 1803

Men in a street market, Istanbul, Turkey, with baskets of fruit and vegetables. Date: circa 1900s

Turkish man making coffee on the hearth in small cups. Date: 1866

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