India Collection (page 18)

Khyber Pass - Dead Afghan Frontier Raider
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Gravestones near Mandu, Madhya Pradesh, India
Old decorated Grave Markers near Mandu, Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts Date: circa 1940s

Lord George Francis Hamilton (1845 - 1927), British Conservative Party politician. Date: 1903

Lady Grant, nee Miss Margaret Cochran, in costume for the play Polly at the Savoy Theatre, London, 1923. Lady Grant was the wife of Sir Alfred Hamilton Grant

INDIA ROZAH
The tomb of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (variously spelt). Date: 1835

Ceremony in which the proclamation of Queen Victoria as Empress of India. Date: 1877

Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833 - 1913), early successes in India and Africa were followed by appalling incompetence during the Boer War

Exterior of the Old India Office, Leadenhall Street, London. Date: 1803

TOWER OF SILENCE
The top of a Parsee Tower of Silence, Dakharma, where the dead bodies are exposed to the elements and to scavenging birds. Date: 19th century

AKBAR TOMB SIKUNDRA
Akbar is buried in this massive tomb at Sikundra, near Agra : he started building it himself, then after his death his son Jihangir completed it. Date: 1850

PORTUGUESE TAKE DIU 1509
A sea battle in the harbour of Diu, on the west coast of India, results in the death of Sultan Badur and Portuguese annexation. Inset : Nugno d'Acona who founds the colony. Date: 1509

HUNTING TIGER INDIA 1916
Three men and a dead tiger at Mohand, India. Date: 1916

A wedding cake to be proud of, for the wedding of a British couple in India. Date: 1920

NACHIKETAS & YAMA
Nachiketas goes to Yama (death) & is granted three boons. He aquires wisdom & is free from death

Departure Siddhartha Myth India Buddha Leaves
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SHAHZADAGHS/CAPTURE/1857
The capture and death of the Shahzadaghs. Date: 1857

1857 MUTINY/AFTER BATTLE
The dead tended after a battle. Date: 1857- 1858

PARSEE FUNERAL, INDIA
The FUNERALS of the PARSIES (followers of Zoroaster) Date: 1737

Cremation Calcutta Death Regional India 1859
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RELIGION/INDIA/KALI
KALI, the fearsome Hindu goddess of death, watches while a sacrifical victim is put painfully to death

TRANSPORT/RAIL/INDIA
Locomotives destined for India, at Liverpool docks. Date: 1930

FRANCISCO JAVIER/NARGEOT
FRANCISCO JAVIER (XAVIER) Spanish Jesuit missionary; resuscitates a dead man in India Date: 1506 - 1552

Monks meditate and die
Shahabad, India : six ascetics are meditating in the temple when a lamp sets light to a mat. Forbidden to move while meditating, they burn to a holy death. Date: 1939

Group photograph: hunting wild boar, India
A group of people after a successful day hunting wild boar in India. Date: April 1917

Francisco Javier, miracle at Travancore, India
Francisco Javier (or Xavier) (1506-1552), Spanish Jesuit missionary in Asia. Seen here as a missionary at Travancore, India -- to convince people of God's power

Inspection at the Yenan Young Oil Fields, Burma
British colonials inspecting the Yenan Young (Yenangyaung) Oil Fields, Burma (Myanmar). Date: circa 1916

British colonials inspecting the Yenan Young (Yenangyaung) Oil Fields, Burma (Myanmar). Date: circa 1916

Sukhoi Su-30MKI SB038 - Panavia Tornado F. 3s ZE982 & ZE342
Indian Air Force and Royal Air Force - Sukhoi Su-30MKI SB038 and Panavia Tornado F.3s ZE982 & ZE342, during a visit to India in the early 2000s. Date: circa 2012

Sukhoi Su-30MKI and Eurofighter Typhoon FGR. 1
Indian Air Force and Royal Air Force - Sukhoi Su-30MKI and Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.1, seen with groundcrew and aircrew of the RAF and IAF contingents oa visit to India. Date: circa 2012

India Pavilion from the Lake, British Emplre Exhibition 1924 by Charles Howard

British Naval Manoeuvres off Moda, Turkey - Vessels involved were The HMS Iron Duke, The HMS Benbow, the HMS Marlborough, HMS Emperor of India, HMS Ajax and HMS Centurion - July 30, 1923. Date: 1923

Panoramic view of Maitos, Chanakkale, Turkey. Date: 1923

Maitos, Chanakkale - Turkey - Panorama with Royal Navy Ships (from left): HMS Emperor of India, HMS Centurion and HMS Benbow Date: 1923

Drying Silk Cocoons in India
A silk factory in India, showing the latest and most approved method. Cocoons exposed in the sun in large flats trays to dry the silk and also kill the grub inside each cocoon. Date: late 1890s

Snake-Charmers in India
Snake-charmers handle the cobra with impunity as they play their instruments. Date: late 1890s

Manufacture of Opium in India
Raising revenue of opium saw large profits in the drug to China. Photograph showing an intermediate stage in the process of preparation

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

General Sir Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) fording the River Kaitna, Battle of Assaye, western India, 23 September 1803

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

Surrender of Pondicherry (Puducherry), India, after a siege lasting from 4 September 1760 to 15 January 1761, part of the Third Carnatic War

Native Youth of India pleading for Christian Instruction Date: 1848

West India Docks, River Thames, London Date: circa 1900

English attack on Nova Colonia del Sacramento by East India Company Privateers under the command of Captain John Macnamara, Rio de la Plata, south-western Uruguay, 6 January 1763

Skirmish in a mountain pass, Lushai Expedition (1871-1872), India (a successful expedition to rescue British subjects who had been captured by the Lushais or Mizo people in north-east India)

Fall of Lucknow, Indian Mutiny Date: 1858

Captain Hope Johnstone bringing news of the capture of Lucknow, Indian Mutiny Date: 1858

The Meeting of the Generals, Delhi, Indian Mutiny Date: 1857

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