May 29, 2011
Hindu Woman Praying at a Cow - Delhi 1946
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
Source: Life Archive hosted by Google
Studio Photograph of Ramanand Kayastha taken on 31st December 1901 at Govindgarh, Rewa Madhya Pradesh
Ramanand Kayastha was an employee of Political agent of Baghelkhand agency. This photograph is contributed by his grandson Dr.P.N.Shrivastava
Famous Hunter and Author Jim Corbett after Killing the Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag in 1925
The first victim of this leopard was a villager of village Benji. For eight years, no one dared move alone at night on the road between the Hindu shrines of Kedarnath and Badrinath, for it passed through the leopard's territory, and few villagers would leave their houses. The leopard was apparently so desperate for food that it would break down doors, leap through windows, claw through the mud or thatch walls of huts and drag people from them, devouring them. The British Parliament requested the aid of Corbett in the autumn of 1925.
Corbett's notes revealed that this leopard, an elderly male, was suffering from serious gum recession and tooth loss. Analysis of many of the man-eaters taken by Corbett and other hunters has shown a pattern, in which the animals are too sick or compromised to hunt their normal prey, and thus turn to hunting humans, who are much easier to hunt and kill than wild game.
Know more about Leopard of Rudraprayag and Jim Corbett in Wikipedia
source: wikipedia.org
Hindu Women Bathing in the Yamuna river before worship at the Birla Temple - Delhi 1946
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
Source: Life Archive hosted by Google
May 28, 2011
Indian Man Practicing Yoga - May 1949
Photographer: Eliot Elisofon
Source: Life Archive hosted by Google
May 23, 2011
Studio Portrait of a Marathi Theatrical troupe - Bombay (Mumbai) 1870's
Source: British Library (bl.uk)
Upper Class Burmese Couple - 1890's
Photographer: Philip Adolphe Klier (Probably)
Source: British Library (bl.uk)
Burmese Lady in Traditional Costume - 1890's
Photographer: Watts and Skeen
Source: British Library (bl.uk)
Burmese Lady - Full Length Studio Portrait 1890's
Photographer: Felice Beato
Source: British Library (bl.uk)
Burmese Man and Wife - From Gladstone Collection 1880's
Photographer: Philip Adolphe Klier
Source: British Library (bl.uk)
May 22, 2011
Two Women with a Curry Stone and a Raggy Mill at Madras (Chennai) in Tamil Nadu, India - 1870
Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections
Source: British Library (bl.uk)
Two Women Grinding Grain in the Yard of a House in India - 1871
Photographer: Hooper & Western
From the Archaeological Survey of India Collections
Source: British Library
Studio Portrait of Blacksmiths at Work in India - 1873
Source: British Library (bl.uk)
Women Pounding and Cleaning Rice - Madras (Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India - 1870
From the Archaeological Survey of India collections
Source: British Library (bl.uk)
Pariah woman in front of a Hut near Calcutta (Kolkata) - 1851
Photographer: Frederick Fiebig
Source: British Library (bl.uk)
May 21, 2011
Two Toda men and a woman from the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu India - 1871
Photographer: A member from the Madras School of Arts
Source: British Library (bl.uk)
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