Saturday, June 5, 2021

Life Under The British Raj

0-Prostitutes kept behind bars in a red light district of Bombay
00-INDIA - CIRCA 1935 A man is trying to check the attack of a tiger. India.
000-INDIA - CIRCA 1935  A tiger attacks a person. India. Photograph around 1935
1-Characters, dromedary and mule, India then Pakistan, 1932
2-Afghanistan or Pakistan around 1930
3-Hindu dignitary on horseback, 1932
4-Pakistanis with turban and a rider, India
5-he trolley also sells cigars and tobacco. These trolleys were used in large stations so that passengers would not have a long walk if they needed to buy food. By the 1920s and 1930s most Indian train services had buffet cars
6-Street scene after the monsoon in Calcutta in the 30's
7-INDIA - CIRCA 1935  Election day in Delhi. Indigenous people in front of the city hall. India.
8-Field Marshal the Earl of Cavan inspected the officers and men of the Indian contingent when they paraded in full Coronation uniform at their Hampton Court quarters, near London.
9-circa 1930 Villagers crowd round a train to fill water vessels in the village of Kanyimbadi in Northern Madras, India, during a harsh drought. The train travels around villages in the stricken area
10-Police disperse a group of Indians. 1930
11-Railway Station', circa 1918-circa 1939. From an album of postcards.
12-3rd June 1930  Arrested volunteers, who are part of over three hundred who made a raid on the Wadala Salt Depots in Bombay, are loaded into a police van.
13-Photo shows a trio of Gujerati women boiling salt water for the manufacture of the mineral in the compound of the Congress House in Bombay.
14-5 12 1930- Calcutta, India Fighting tramcar blaze kindled by Indian rioters. Firemen making desperate efforts to save one of the tram cars set afire by native rioters after stoning firemen, many of the disturbers flung themselves into the canal
15-1935  Gunga and Sohan Singh wrestling in front of the Viceroy of India and Lady Chetwood, (seen behind), at the Punjab Mela, a religious festival held at Annandale.
16-Asia, india, maharaja in a visit to the school of ajmer, 1920-30.
17- Ramon Novarro (1899-1968), movie poster for Son of India, 1931.
18-England cricket captain Douglas Jardine (1900-1958) chats with Jogendra Singh (1877-1946) prior to the match between Mr Gilbert Scott's XI and the touring team from India,
19-BOMBAY, INDIA - 1930 Immediately after the sudden arrest of Gandhi, the Hindu nationalist leader and 'prophet', hero of the insurgency against England, large protests took place in Bombay, India, in 1930
20-- CIRCA 1935 Traffic policeman in Kalkutta with a sunshade
21-Disgruntled students block the entrance to St Xavier's College with the slogan Freedom, Peace, Progress, September 12, 1938 in Calcutta, India.
22-These Voting Boxes were labelled with symbols, so that indians, who were illiterates, could vote as well. Kalkutta. Photograph. February 2nd, 1937.
23-Some voluntaries inspecting the loading of carts to check if there are no foreign products. Bombay.
24-India, family belonging to the tribe venuka during divali, 1920-30.
25-Fakir seated on a bed of pointe shoes, in India in 1934.
 

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