India Collection (page 111)

Parsee Marriage, India
A marriage ceremony among the Parsis (Parsees), followers of Zoroaster, in India. A female sitar player provides a musical accompaniment

The Stamp Galop features stamps from Western Australia and Bavaria, India, the Papal States and more - evidence of the passion for philately in the Victorian home

Mr. Lairds ship-building yard, Liverpool
Engraving of Mr. Lairds ship-building yard in Liverpool. Iron ship-building on an extensive scale originated from this prolific ship-yard

Engaging Dock labourers at West India Dock
Illustration by A. Forestier showing unemployed men being engaged as dock labourers at West India Dock, London. Many aspects of dock work were relatively unskilled

Sydenham Crystal Palace
Charles Goodyears India- Rubber Court : at first some attempt is made to house exhibits like those of the Great Exhibition, but activities soon diversify

India / Jaipur Palace 1994
Jaipur: Maharadja Sawai Palace

Indian Boxing 1876
A particularly vicious form of boxing in India, where two men fight wearing spikes on their knuckles; the result is rather bloody

Maltese Boys Dive C1880
Passengers on an India-bound P&O liner are treated to a display of diving (for coins) by Maltese boys

India / Surat C1700
Surat: the harbour, with ships

India / Bombay C1745
Bombay: general view from the sea, when the city was the property of the East India Company of England

India / Laxmi Vilas C1920
Laxmi Vilas Palace: north-east view

Geriah Fort. India
Geriah is a notorious pirate stronghold, until February 1756 when the East India Company send admiral Watson and Clive to seize the town and burn the ships

Cape Town / Riebeeck
Jan van Riebeeck, on behalf of the Dutch East India company, lands at the Cape of Good Hope where he will found Cape Town and govern it for ten years

Suttee, India
A widow of Malabar, southern India, prepares to throw herself onto her husbands funeral pyre

Military Men at Ease
British officers in their mess - men in evening dress relax, talking to one another or reading or playing games, while servants bring them refreshing drinks

Red Cross in India
Photograph of the Red Cross nurses in Simla

Ronald Ross / Nobel 1902
SIR RONALD ROSS British physician, born in India

Cinema, Bombay
The Novelty Theatre Cinematograoh, Bombay : in India as elsewhere, the first cinemas are converted premises in existing buildings, rather than purpose-built venues

1st Marquess Cornwallis
CHARLES, FIRST MARQUESS CORNWALLIS English Military Commander and colonial governor. British General in the American Revolutionary War

G&s / Pirates, India 2
Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry... the pirates as portrayed in an amateur production by the British community at Simla, India

Bulldog Cannon
The " Bulldog Cannon", found by the British Army in the Fort of Kurnaul, India, in 1838, but originally forged centuries earlier in China. The mouth is the guns muzzle

Battle of Pollilur (2 / 4)
The Battle of Pollilur waged between Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore and Col. William Baille of the East India Company. Bailles force was defeated and he was captured

India / Delhi / Palace
The Royal Palace of the Mughal emperors : the Hall of Audience

Variety of Snakes
1) Anaconda (Eunectes murinus) 2)" Pedda Poda" Python 3)" Port Natal" Python 4) Rattlesnake (genus Crotalus) 5) Black Rattlesnake 6) Cobra (Naia tripudians)

ALEPPO / SYRIA / 1851
The Euphrates Valley route to India. Seen from the Antioch entrance

Lord Roberts / Davie Hero
Lord Roberts on the march to KANDAHAR, where the British will inflict a decisive victory on the Afghans, dispersing their forces completely

In the Bolan Pass / 1879
British advance into Afghanistan through the Bolan Pass, in appalling wintry conditions which take toll of men and animals alike

Battle of Kandahar
At the battle of KANDAHAR, where the British under Roberts defeat the Afghans, Major White wins the Victoria Cross for his bravery

Pigsticking, India
Pigsticking in India : beating sugar-canes for a hog : British hunters see their victim emerge into the open, and give chase

Vasco Da Gama & Spirit
At the Cape of Storms (later Good Hope) Adamastor, the spirit of the Cape, appears to Gamas crew and warns of disasters to all who seek to sail round the Cape to India

Yogi Self-Mutilators
Indians who mutilate themselves by slashing their bodies

Two Seated Ascetics
One ascetic holds his arms above his head till they atrophy, another sits and meditates

Folklore / Adamastor
At the Cape of Storms (later Good Hope) Adamastor, the spirit of the Cape, appears to Gamas crew and warns of disasters to all who seek to sail round the Cape to India

Holy War Preached / 1897
In India, fanatical Moslems respond enthusiastically to the call for a Jihad (holy war) against the occupying British

India / Simla
Barnes Court, the summer residence of the commander in chief of the British occupying forces (in 1863 sir Hugh Rose)

India Ganges
Boats on the Ganges

Gandhi in London / 1931
Gandhi in London for the Second India Round Table Conference at St James Palace

Two Indian Fakirs, 1730
Two fakirs : the one standing is holding his arms above his head till they waste away, and so is his sleeping companion (which means they never use their hands for anything)

British Official, India
A British government official is smoking his native hookah when in comes an Indian who greets him with the traditional salaam

Seed Stall, India
A seed stall at a market in Delhi, India

Magistrates Court
A British magistrate presides in a kutchery - local court - in Oudh (now part of Uttar Pradesh) : at this time Oudh was independent, but it was

Ploughing, India
Ploughing with a pair of oxen

Hinduism / Brahma
Brahma the creator deity and one aspect of the Hindhu triad of Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu

Costume / Men / Indianpriest
An Indian priest in simple orange robe and carrying a large fan

British / Indian Army Ww1
" India will help" -- A British and an Indian officer join forces to fight the enemy

Battle of Maharajpur
MAHRATTA WAR The Battle of Maharajapur

Indian Village Court
The headman of an Indian village holding his court

Dancer & Bombay Staff
A dancer performs before a member of the Bombay Staff Corps. It was the disapproval of the British in India which drove Indian dance styles to the brink of extinction

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