Tag: Vintage photos

From ‘Indian pages and pictures: Rajputana, Sikkim, the Punjab, and Kashmir’ (1912) by Michael Myers Shoemaker (1853-1924).

From Dutch travelogue ‘De zomer in Kaschmir : De Aarde en haar Volken’ (Summer in Kashmir: ‘The Land and its Peoples) by F. Michel (1907).

Sher Garhi Palace

Rustic Voetanar (?) temple

Pandits at a Holy Spring at Valtongoe (?)

Amarnath Pilgrims

Children playing inside Chinar tree

Narayan inside Voetanar (?) temple

Amarnath Camp

Doonga

Ekkas and Tongas

A pilgrim from Patiala

Kashmirir Handicrafts

A Kashmiri Muslim Woman [Update: Photographer is Henry Guttmann. 1900]

Koh-i-Noor Glacier

Mar Canal

Martand

A Muslim Singer-Beggar

Kashmiri Musilm Women with Hookhas and Kangri

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’.

Amarnath Route

Ruins of temple at Khotair (?)

Shah Hamadan/Kali Temple

Third Bridge

A tourist on Elephant

A village and a bridge

A marriage procession

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Photographs from ‘Beyond the Pir Panjal life and missionary enterprise in Kashmir’ by Ernest F. Neve (1914, first published in 1912). Photographs are by Dr. Neve himself unless mentioned otherwise. The rest of the photographs are by popular photographer from Sialkot R.E. Shorter (check out his kashmir work here and here). Besides Shorter, we have G. W. Millais (Geoffrey W. Millais, son of Sir John Millais, his previously featured here and here), we have famous Biscoe, and we have new names like G.W. Possnet and two very Indian, B.D. Chadda and Shiv Nath (Vishwanath?).

Crossing the Indus on a Raft of inflated Sheepskins. [More on crossing rivers on dead skin, later]

Konsa Nag, a the foot of Brahma Peaks

Mount Tatticooti, highest peak in Pir Panjal range

Saussurea, last flower found on Pir Panjal heights

Street view Anantnag/Islamabad

Kashmiri Villagers

Peasant holding Kangri

Fair at Hazrat Bal

Mar Canal. Many old travelogues call this bridge ‘Merchant’s Bridge’. This should be ‘Bohri Kadal’, Bohris being the Punjabi merchant class of Kashmir

(I think is should be Tsont-i-kul or Apple tree Canal?)

Shah-Hamadan

Previously posted here from a year 1904 book but now identified to have been shot by  R.E. Shorter (which also means that the photographs posted here are actually probably a decade or so older that the stated 1912)

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Photographs from the ‘Kashmir’ section of 15th Anniversary issue of India Today published in 1990. If there is a Kashmir ‘special’ issue today in any Magazine, you will probably see similar form of story telling through pictures. Photographers who first figured out the Kashmir template include Raghu Rai, Prashant Panjair and Pramod Pushkarna.

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