Accidental Blogger

A general interest blog

I have been meaning to write about the Tea Party of American politics for some time. But the ever escalating ridiculousness of the Tea Partiers' bald faced lies and innuendos is so maddening that it has kept me from composing a coherent post. Perhaps more on that later.

Instead of High Noon at the GOP sponsored High Tea, let me look back at another time in another place. Here are some historic pictures of India that you might enjoy. Click on the thumbnails to see the enlarged images.

India - Sepia- 1 A young girl from a princely family atop the panther she shot

India-Sepia-2 A British man of the officer cadre getting a pedicure from his Indian servant

India-Sepia-3 A stretch of the Grand Trunk Road, an ancient trade route from Calcutta to Kabul

India-Sepia-4 A group of dancing girls or courtesans in their finery

India-Sepia-5 Aerial view of the president's palace and the Parliament Building in New Delhi

India-Sepia-6 A group of devotees from the Hindu Vaishnava sect

India-Sepia-7 Aerial view of the Jama Masjid, the historic 17th century mosque in Delhi

India-Sepia-8 Plane carrying passengers and mail from England to India refueling in Sharjah (UAE)

(Thanks to Veena Kaul for the photographs) 
 

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8 responses to “Sepia Tinted India”

  1. narayan

    There are a handful of books on the subject of the history of photography in India. The one I have is Judith Mara Gutman’s “Through Indian Eyes”. Mostly people pictures (like 1,2,4,6 above) by indian photographers, many of earlier vintage. Mint condition, if anyone wants to make me an offer on this excellent coffee table book.

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  2. Why do you want to give it up?

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  3. narayan

    The weight and vanity of possessions destined for the dump.

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  4. Where did you get these unusual archival shots, Ruchira?

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  5. Usha, a friend e-mailed them to me.
    Did you notice that Narayan (see comment #1 above) has a book to sell? :-)

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  6. gaddeswarup

    I just checked that the fourth photograph from above is there with the caption
    Nautch girls, Bombay, by Taurines, c.1880’s
    May be some of the others are from there too.

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  7. Thank you, Gaddeswarup. Those are some very touching photos of the partion. I will check out the other photos on the interesting photo blog at leisure.
    The Taurines picture did bear the caption “Nautch Girls” in the e-mail that was sent to me. I changed it to dancing girls just as I re-wrote all the captions to make it more easily understandable to all A.B. readers.

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