Thursday, April 6, 2023

"Capturing History: Vintage Images of Colonial Rule in British India (1930-1940)"


-British and Indian police officers rounded up Pathan rioters in Dongri, Bombay during the Hindu/Muslim riots in 1932 while British soldiers look on.


The Viceroy of India, Lord Wellington, studied a map in front of the Khyber Pass. The British never really managed to pacify the hinterland of the border crossing in north-west India. Here the authority of the respective tribal leaders applied. Today the pass separates Pakistan from Afghanistan.


A page of the press book 'Promoting speak easily' (1932) starring Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante and Thelma Todd at the Capitol Cinema, a theater of present-day Mumbai, India; 1932


British armored cars in India, 1929


British Fort in Jammu in India


Chariots of the gods in India


Colonial days! Family cycling in India 1932 wearing safari hats



Cremation in India

Nagpur, India, 1932 British colonialists share a picnic in the countryside during the days of the British Empire


Sir Ronald Ross. View of British physician Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932) with his wife and caged birds not in his laboratory in India. From 1890s 

 

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