Raj Collection (page 4)

British Raj hunters shooting tigers in India
British colonial hunters mounted on elephants with Indian guides chasing and shooting at a tiger in a river in India. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Theodore Goetz from Friedrich Johann

RAJ FASHIONS LATE 1910S
Raj clothing. The men wear cool pale coloured suits and slim ties. The ladies wear white, ankle-length dresses with soft ruffles or broderie Anglaise. Date: late 1910s

English dinner party in India with servants
A dinner party on an English hill station in India in the British raj, from Curry and Rice (on Forty Plates) by Captain Geo. F. Atkinson. Date: 1860

Ladies in their carriage in India 1860
Ladies in their carriage while their gentlemen admirers crowd round, from Curry and Rice (on Forty Plates) by Captain Geo. F. Atkinson. Date: 1860

Colonial type in India. Date: circa 1920s

Shimla, India - Barnes Court Lieutnenant Governors Headquarters. Shimla, originally called Simla, the capital city of Himachal Pradesh

Rail Travel in India
Rail travel in India is very comfortable - for Europeans, with native servants to polish their boots, sustain them with coffee, and keep their hookah in good nick... Date: circa 1860

Fashion / Tweeddale 1884
Marchioness of Tweeddale wears a brown & ivory dress, low cut, tight-fitting bodice, bows on the shoulders & 1/2 length sleeves, panniers & trained skirt. Date: 1884

Lady on a bus
Although the last not least. Fat lady boarding a bus. Artist: Hylton Cock. (Cock was also an antique dealer who occupied the premises before World War 1 which is now The Taste of Raj on The Parade in)

Group of colonials in India
Group of three colonial women with three servants in India. Date: circa 1920s

Simla Horse Show
Pack mules on parade. A winning pair of pack mules representing the 3rd Light Battery, at the Simla Horse Show, India. Date: 1937

Tatler front cover - Lord & Lady Curzon in India
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859 - 1925), British Conservative statesman, Viceroy and Governor General of India and Foreign Secretary, pictured with his first wife

Group of colonials with Indian servant
A group of eight colonial types, four men and four women. An Indian servant stands alongside, holding a bag of golf clubs. Date: circa 1910s

Indian man and girl with horse
A small white girl, possibly the daughter of a British soldier from the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers who had been posted to India, with an Indian man, and a horse saddled for riding. Date: c.1913

Kiplings Workplace
RUDYARD KIPLING The offices of the Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore, India, where Rudyard Kipling worked from 1882 to 1887. Date: 1865 - 1936

Viceroys House, Delhi
The Viceroys House, New Delhi, India, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869 - 1944), which was finally completed in 1929. Date: 1930s

The Indian Institute, Broad Street, Oxford, England, was founded in 1885 by Sir Monier Williams. It contains a library of Eastern Studies and is a museum of Eastern Art. Date: founded 1885

Viceroys Gardens, Delhi
The gardens of the house of the Viceroy of India, New Delhi, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in a series of Persian style terraces. Date: 1930s

Council House, New Delhi
Aerial view of the Council House, New Delhi, India. Date: 1930s

Tiffin on the lawns at New Delhi
A Viceregal garden party, one of the social wonders of the East, taking place on February 10th 1931

Flight Sub-Lieutenant R. A. J. Warneford, R. N. 1915
Portrait of Flight Sub-Lieutenant Warneford of the Royal Navy Air Service. Warneford became the first airman to destroy a Zeppelin in the air

Indian Camel Ride
In India during the Raj, there was no need for children to go to a zoo for a camel ride

Warneford Downs Zeppelin
Flight Sub-Lieutenant R.A.J. Warneford destroys the first Zeppelin, over Ghent, earning the Victoria Cross. He died in a plane crash in Paris just ten days later

British in India / 1880
Chota Haziree, or little breakfast, in India

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