in bits and pieces
The following postcard dated 1907 (Bombay) and captioned ‘A model of Panjab Beauty’ is probably the strangest curio in my collection.
But, it obviously needed some fixing…
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| Cave inside Chenar Tree. By a British Army Officer, around 1907. [via: bonham] |
In Abul Fazal’s Akbarnama there is an episode in which during a storm, Akbar and 34 of his men take shelter inside the hollowed trunk of an aged Chinar tree. In ‘Tuzk-i-Jehangiri’, returing to the same episode, Jehangir recounts that he too took shelter in a cave inside a Chinar tree that time, he along with five or seven of his horsemen and with their horses.
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The world is indeed getting smaller.
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| Bund |
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| Circular Road, Gulmarg |
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| Dal |
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| Gangbal |
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| Harmukh |
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| View of Hari Parbat |
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| Srinagar |
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| Jhelum Bank |
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| Kolahoi |
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| Lidarwat |
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| Nanga Parbat from Kitardaji (6000 feet, near Baramulla) |
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| Doonga |
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| Nishat |
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| Dal |
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| Jhelum |
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| Pandrethan |
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| Pir Panjal from Alsu (??) |
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| Ramparts of Kashmir |
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| Srinagar |
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| Srinagar Flooded |
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| Tronkol |
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| way to kashmir |
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| Sher Garhi Palace |
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| Rustic Voetanar (?) temple |
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| Pandits at a Holy Spring at Valtongoe (?) |
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| Amarnath Pilgrims |
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| Children playing inside Chinar tree |
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| Narayan inside Voetanar (?) temple |
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| Amarnath Camp |
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| Doonga |
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| Ekkas and Tongas |
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| A pilgrim from Patiala |
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| Kashmirir Handicrafts |
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| A Kashmiri Muslim Woman [Update: Photographer is Henry Guttmann. 1900] |
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| Koh-i-Noor Glacier |
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| Mar Canal |
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| Martand |
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| A Muslim Singer-Beggar |
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| Kashmiri Musilm Women with Hookhas and Kangri |
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| Pandit Men Among other things, this book records what Pandit men were made to do by the community if say a Kashmiri Muslim man ‘stole’ their wife (as they say,‘zanana chori ho gaya!’ ). The loss of caste in case of woman was of course permanent, but as a penance, for three days she was to eat only in evening, then following three day she was to eat only in morning and then for next three days eat only what she was offered in alms. The husband on the other hand was not to touch food for three days. He was to not sleep and to constantly utter, ‘Ram,Ram’. |
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| Amarnath Route |
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| Ruins of temple at Khotair (?) |
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| Shah Hamadan/Kali Temple |
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| Third Bridge |
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| A tourist on Elephant |
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| A village and a bridge |
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| A marriage procession |
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