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1790réf. 47670Paris: Didot 1790. Brief work cautioning against too much freedom of trade with the East Indies. Three copies in OCLC at the John Carter Brown Library and the national libraries of France and Australia. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Very good. Untrimmed. unknown books
1914réf. 180951914. Certificate awarded to the Vicereine of India Lady Hardinge of Penshurst upon her visit to the Indraprastha Hindu Girls School in Delhi. 1914. Measures 10" x 16" inches. Text enclosed in ornately decorative box with the school's seal centered at the top reading "The Hindu Girls School Delhi First deserve then desire 1904." The certificate's attractive green script reads in part "To her excellency Lady Hardinge of Penshurst May it please your Excellency It is with feelings of the profoundest joy and gratitude that we to-day welcome Your Excellency to the Indraprastha Hindu Girls School Delhi.Your Excellency's loving interest in the advancement of the women of this land and motherly affection for the children your care for the suffering poor the exemplary fortitude which you have shewn in the time of danger and the heroic devotion to your husband--our ideals of womanhood--have endeared your name to every woman and child in India and we pray you to accept our reverential and warm-hearted welcome to-day." Lady Hardinge of Penshurst Winifred Selina Sturt married her first cousin Henry Sturt a racing magnate and close friend of Edward Prince of Wales. She served as a Woman of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales before her husband by then a Baron was named Viceroy of India. The concurrence of monarchical rule and colonialism put aristocratic families with close ties to the royal family put aristocratic Europeans in positions of power worldwide no matter their qualifications. The family moved to India where Lady Hardinge worked to advance women's education. She was instrumental in starting the Lady Hardinge Medical College in Delhi the first medical school exclusively for women in India. She died in November of 1914 just 8 months after receiving this certificate. Signed by the school's President Lady Superintendent and Secretary. Creased along lines where paper was folded. 3 small holes along left side do not affect text. 1" tears along top do not affect text. Tape attached to verso. Very good condition. unknown books
1835réf. 8652First edition. Octavo. Descriptive account by Rev. Hobart Caunter. 22 engravings from original drawings by William Daniell. 263 pages 4 pages of advertisements. Original gilt and blindstamped dark brown morocco spine with gilt stamped design of a palm tree and camel covers with gilt stamped vignette of 3 men riding on an elephant surrounded by blindstamped border of intertwined snakes a.e.g. rubbing to extremities. Very good. No foxing. Binder's ticked of F. Westley. Bookplate of H. Scofield and C.W. Nicolay with Nicolay's ink signature dated 1835. Bull and Churton hardcover books
1861réf. 30491033 Norland Square Notting Hill 1861. 4pp. 12mo. Old folds. 4pp. 12mo. Born in Bombay in 1799 Duncan was the illegitimate son of the Governor of Bombay. Duncan's father's wealth enabled him to pursue a literary life and he published regularly from 1825-57. He summarises the work thus: "The object of this book is to enable those who have never studied India to acquire a knowledge of its institutions with the best possible expenditure of time." A book on India would be seemingly inevitable for a writer with his background yet the work described here was seemingly never published. unknown books
1880réf. List3871Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1880. Carte de visite measuring approximately 2 ½ x 4 inches. Albumen portrait of an Indian man wearing a turban and white garment mounted on photographer's card. Printed verso headed "India Missionary Photographs" advertising copies of "this and other India photographs printed by first-class artists in Philadelphia from negatives taken in India" sold for the benefit of foreign mission work. Addressed in print to Rev. A. D. Rowe York Pennsylvania or Miss Alice Geiger Secretary Woman's Missionary Society Springfield Ohio. Light wear and toning; very good. A carte de visite portrait from a series of India missionary photographs printed in Philadelphia from negatives taken in India and sold to raise money for foreign mission work. The verso offers the photographs in card and cabinet sizes with prices for single copies small groups and lots of one hundred suggesting that the images were intended for circulation among church members missionary supporters and women's missionary societies. American missions in South Asia were less politically dominant than British missionary work there but were active throughout the nineteenth century especially through Congregational Presbyterian Baptist Methodist and women's missionary societies. By the later nineteenth century American mission networks in India supported schools medical work printing itinerant preaching and fundraising efforts at home of which photographic cards like this were one small part. A strong nineteenth-century missionary CDV especially for its printed verso documenting the reproduction pricing and circulation of South Asian photographs through American foreign mission networks this being the first example we have encountered with a South Asian subject. unknown books
1929réf. 219671929. Government of India An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages 1929 documents the legal system created to restrict child marriage in British India and supports research into women's rights colonial law childhood and social reform in South Asia. The Act commonly known as the Sarda Act after reformer Har Bilas Sarda reveals how legislation sought to regulate marriage age through statutory definitions penalties and enforcement provisions. It provides primary-source evidence for the study of Indian feminist legal history colonial governance and campaigns against patriarchal marriage customs. Government of India. An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch 1929. First edition. Official pamphlet printing of Act No. XIX of 1929 passed by the Indian Legislature and assented to by the Governor General on October 1 1929. The Act defines "child" "child marriage" "contracting party" and "minor" sets age thresholds for boys under eighteen and girls under fourteen and establishes penalties for adult men contracting child marriages as well as for those who solemnize arrange or permit such ceremonies. Its jurisdiction extends across British India including British Baluchistan and the Santhal Parganas with enforcement beginning April 1 1930. The printed price of "1 anna or 1½d" indicates official distribution for public and administrative use. The pamphlet documents a legal enforcement system for marriage reform through statutory age limits criminal penalties and responsibility assigned to adult men parents priests and other facilitators demonstrating the process by which colonial law entered debates over gender childhood and personal status. The timing is significant because Indian social reformers and women's rights advocates used the late colonial legal arena to challenge early marriage and forced domestic subordination. Minor edge creasing; overall very good condition. A concise official printing of a foundational statute in South Asian women's rights law and the legal history of childhood protection. unknown books
1935réf. 55093Ranchi: Man in India" Office 1935. First Edition. With plates folding map. Pp. 4 iii-iv 320 1 xxxviii. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth. Minor rubbing at extremities else about fine. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf "To Prof Dr. Sir Arthur Keith . with the reverential regards of Sarat Ch. Roy 6-4-35. First Edition. With plates folding map. Pp. 4 iii-iv 320 1 xxxviii. 1 vols. 8vo. Abundantly illustrated work on the Hill Bhuiyas of the Orissa region of south central India. Uncommon. WIth an excellent presentation to British anatomist and physical anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith. Man in India" Office unknown books
1976réf. 306083Washington D.C.: Embassy of India 1976. First edition. 222 pp. 4to. Original blue silk-covered boards dust jacket. Front hinge over-opened some minor edgewear to jacket. First edition. 222 pp. 4to. INSCRIBED by the author to then Secretary of State Cyrus Vance 1917-2002. Vance occupied the post 1977-1980 succeeding Henry Kissinger. He accompanied President Carter on his historic visit to India in January 1978 a few months before this inscription which culminated in the Delhi Declaration in which the two nations made a strong commitment to global diplomacy and human rights. The visit was crucial in restoring good relations with India following Nixon's tilt toward Pakistan in 1971. Kamath was Washington correspondent for the Times of India from 1969 to 1978. Embassy of India unknown books
1924réf. 511351924. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing 1924. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing 1924. 1924 Edition of the Bombay Code Government of India Legislative Department. The Bombay Code: In Five Volumes. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing India 1924. 5 volumes. Original cloth gilt titles to spines moderate shelfwear and soiling. Text blocks cracked in a few places internally clean. Ex-library. Location labels to spines small stamps to versos of title pages. A solid set. $500. Fourth edition. Volume I: The unrepealed Bombay Regulations The Local Acts of the Governor General in Council in Force in Bombay The Regulations Made Under the Statute 33 Victoria Chapter 3 And the Government of India Act 1915 5 and 6 Geo. 5 C. 61 In force in Bombay Lists of the Enactments Which Have Been Notified for Scheduled Districts in Bombay Under the Scheduled Districts Act 1874: And Chronological Tables of Enactments Reproduced; Volume II: The Unrepealed Acts of the Governor of Bombay in Council in Force in Bombay from 1862 to 1887 Inclusive: And a Chronological Table of Enactments Reproduced with an Index; Volume III: The Unrepealed Acts of the Governor of Bombay in Council in Force in Bombay From 1888 to 1897 Inclusive; A Chronological Table of Enactments Reproduced with an Appendix and Index; Volume IV. Containing the Unrepealed Acts of the Governor of Bombay in Council in Force in Bombay from 1898 to 1908 Inclusive And a Chronological Table of Enactments Reproduced with Index; Volume V: Containing the Unrepealed Acts of the Governor of Bombay in Council and of the Bombay Legislative Council in Force in Bombay from 1909 to 1922 Inclusive Chronological Tables of Enactments reproduced with Index. OCLC locates 9 copies. BMC 3:850. unknown books
réf. B306750-1New York 1948. 36ff. Mimeographed. 4to. Buckram. Albert Einstein is listed as a member of the National Advisory Board. Very rare. WorldCat lists 2 copies New York Public Library Princeton University. New York, 1948. hardcover books
1940réf. 232161940. British India photo archive following an unidentified man likely a serviceman in Mhow and Mandu during World War II 1942-1943 preserving a localized record of colonial wartime life through mess scenes sport staff bungalows named companions imposed colonial social frameworks and visits to the major Islamic monuments of Mandu. The captions place the central figure in the company of "Carroll Sahib" Ken Davis and other men in uniform-style dress while repeated references to the "mess" weapon training staff and cantonment-like grounds situate the photographs within a British colonial wartime environment in central India. The group shows one participant moving between military or officer-adjacent daily life and the monumental landscape of Mandu at a moment when India remained a crucial base of Allied wartime activity. Photo archive of 43 silver gelatin photographs ranging from 2 x 3.5 to 2.5 x 2.5 inches Mhow and Mandu India 1942-1943. Most photographs bear substantial contemporary handwritten inscriptions on the versos often dated. Identifiable scenes include two men with tennis rackets outside a bungalow captioned as taken after tennis; a portrait inscribed "Me the Carroll Sahib & Ken Davis outside the Mess 25/12/42"; a group of eight men captioned "two scotsmen our four weapon training instructors the Carroll Sahib me outside the W/T staff bungalow 25/12/42"; men wearing garlands outside the mess; a sports or gymkhana ground with riders or runners in formation; tented grounds beside a large building; and a portrait of a man identified as "Machdo our bearer." The architectural and landscape views are closely tied to Mandu with captions naming the Jami Masjid Jahaz Mahal Rupmati's Pavilion Baz Bahadur's Palace mosque interiors courtyards pools lake views ravines and elevated plateaus. Several photographs show men posed on open parade or sports grounds in light uniform-style dress including group portraits outside the mess and the W/T staff bungalow with tennis rackets bicycles garlands and temporary tent lines indicating a social world organized around exercise communal dining and station routine. Other images turn to Mandu's built landscape in much greater detail with framed views of domed pavilions arcaded courtyards carved entrances long interior corridors water tanks and palace ruins seen from terraces lakesides and elevated lookouts. The landscape scenes broaden that record further including steep ravines river and waterfall views and plateau panoramas that place the serviceman's movements within the wider terrain of central India. During World War II Mhow remained an important cantonment in British India and these photographs place one serviceman within the daily social world of that station where tennis communal dining staff housing local attendants and holiday gatherings existed alongside travel to nearby historic sites. The Mandu views record the same hand moving through one of central India's best-known Sultanate monument complexes with captions naming the Jami Masjid Jahaz Mahal Rupmati's Pavilion Baz Bahadur's Palace and associated interiors courtyards pools and landscape features. Light general wear occasional silvering and minor handling marks; inscriptions strong and legible on most versos. The dense captioning and photographic record show British colonial India during World War II through the the personal lens colonial rank and language staff organization sport and leisure during wartime Indian attendants and movement through one of central India's historic architectural landscapes. unknown books
1941réf. 209861941. Gregson Anita. A.P. Mission City School archive 1941-1942 documenting girls' education missionary activity and community life in Ambala Punjab during World War II. This material records daily instruction social interaction and local conditions within a mission-run school for girls alongside written correspondence and institutional reporting that situate the school within wartime pressures and colonial India's educational landscape. The archive provides direct evidence of classroom practices gendered education and the integration of local families into school environments as well as the impact of global conflict on regional communities. Archive comprises 21 original black and white and sepia photographs one typed letter and one annual report. Photographs measuring approximately 2" x 3" to 3" x 5" frequently bear handwritten or typed captions on the verso likely by Anita Gregson identifying subjects and activities. Images show groups of schoolgirls engaged in classroom exercises and outdoor instruction including one scene of students constructing a ground map of India to illustrate agricultural production. Another photograph depicts a semicircle of young children seated outdoors during a lesson with their teacher identified as Miss Atmaran and a veiled mother observing her burkha partially drawn back. Additional images document craft instruction including girls weaving coconut palm leaves into fans and producing woven ties on frames. Musical activity is also present with students playing instruments. Beyond the school photographs depict village life in Punjab including oxen operating a water-drawing mechanism children gathered around a missionary playing a ukulele and a merchant carrying goods suspended from a yoke. The accompanying letter dated June 14 1942 from Gregson to a correspondent in New York references World War II noting international observances and local enlistment: "The young men in our Indian community are continuing to sign up for the army navy and air force." The annual report for the 1941-1942 school year details wartime financial strain fundraising efforts and instructional programs including an adult literacy course for women teaching reading writing and arithmetic. Created while India functioned as part of the British Empire during World War II these materials document the intersection of missionary education wartime mobilization and local social life. The inclusion of adult literacy instruction for women reflects ongoing efforts to expand female education under colonial conditions while the letter and report connect the school directly to global conflict and its local consequences. Light wear and minor fading to photographs; handling wear present. Letter on thin paper with tears and fragility consistent with wartime materials poor to fair condition; remaining materials overall very good condition. This archive provides a concentrated visual and textual record of girls' education and community experience in wartime Punjab. unknown books
1943réf. 234951943. Indian famine crisis press archive depicting hunger relief work and public unrest from Bengal famine conditions through later food riots in independent India. The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated three million people and food scarcity remained politically volatile in India for decades afterward. Street demonstrations over grain rationing and hunger drew police deployments in multiple cities turning food access into a public order crisis as well as a humanitarian emergency. Photo archive of 7 silver gelatin press photographs mostly measuring 8" x 10" India 1943-1964. Crowds gather outside food distribution points children sit with metal bowls during feeding mounted police face demonstrators and uniformed officers move through dense street scenes. Press captions identify Calcutta famine conditions food rioters dispersed by police in Kerala fighting and fire in Lucknow and relief activity for famine victims. Typed captions identify "food rioters" being dispersed outside the Travancore state government house in Trivandrum Kerala where police and mounted officers filled the street after looting over food. Another caption describes Lucknow fighting in which "rioters set fire to about a six-block square" with crowds massed near burning buildings and shopfront signs. Calcutta scenes show famine victims clustered around relief vessels and feeding bowls with one caption stating that people had been "reduced to skin and bone" after food shortages. A street-side feeding scene shows children and adults crouched in rows with metal dishes receiving food from a man holding a large bucket.Verso stamps include Acme Newspictures NEA reference markings New York Bureau labels editor crop marks typed captions and publication dates. The group connects famine mortality postwar scarcity and street protest in India across a period when food distribution became a central test of colonial and postcolonial government authority. Press handling wear caption remnants crop marks corner creasing and scattered surface marks; overall in very good condition. A strong press group linking famine relief imagery with the public unrest that followed hunger into India's mid-century political life. unknown books
1903réf. 43874London: Adam and Charles Black 1903. First edition Copy Number 173 of 1000 signed by Mortimer Menpes. 100 Plates. The illustrations have been engraved and printed at the Menpes Press under Mr. Menpes's direction. 210 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Cream cloth some wear at bottom front joint inner hinges started. First edition Copy Number 173 of 1000 signed by Mortimer Menpes. 100 Plates. The illustrations have been engraved and printed at the Menpes Press under Mr. Menpes's direction. 210 pp. 1 vols. 4to. The first Durbar was held in 1877 to proclaim Queen Victoria as Empress of India. This is the second Durbar to proclaim Edward VII as king in 1902 but was not attended by the King either. It was not until the 1911 Durbar when George V and Queen Mary went to India was the Emperor and his Empress proclaimed in person to the people of India. Our authors stayed in Camp Number One called "The Millionaires' Camp." in Delhi. With an ALS from Menpes tipped in at the back. Inman #18 Adam and Charles Black unknown books
1945réf. 819981945. Varying sizes and formats the majority being 8cm x 5.5cm with some larger format images being no larger than 12cm x 8.5cm. The majority in Very Good condition or better with a couple of images having some abrasions to verso some marginal creasing and in one instance a triangle of loss to the border. A compact and informative group of images the majority with detailed verso captions from an American serviceman a long way from home. One of the most strategically important but now somewhat marginalized initiatives of the later stages of WW2 was the vitally important China-Burma-India resupply route. A phenomenal effort was made to ensure seamless movement of troops and materials in defiance of the ebb and flow of Japanese occupations and blockades throughout the theater of war between 1943 and 1945. Originally allied forces held control of what came to be called "Stilwell Road" running from Ledo through to Kunming in China via Burma this ground route proved subject to a number of issues not least of which was Japanese aggression so an initiative was developed to allow the air transport of vital resources between the rapidly constructed Dinjan airfield in Assam where our G.I. is stationed and the distribution points in China and Burma. This important piece of military and indeed civilian co-ordination was carried out by a number of units; initially the India Air Task Force the majority of which became the U.S. Tenth Air Force with additional allied units ranging from British RAF to the legendary China National Aviation Corporation CNAC. This collection includes an image of Captain Enos Claire Kirkpatrick of the CNAC captioned "One swell fellow" which is notable mainly for his participation in the gradual evolution of the CNAC into the Civil Air Transport and subsequently into the CIA backed Air America for whom Kirkpatrick flew support missions to Dien Bien Phu and a number of other conflict torn South East Asian destinations before his retirement in 1966. Very much a 'cowboy' operation during WW2 with a number of the CNAC pilots being ex- Flying Tigers it later became a more streamlined and well supplied arm of U.S. military intelligence. CNAC was also distinctive for being made up of U.S. and Chinese pilots and crew flying together performing 38000 missions between 1942-1945. A number of other units operated out of Assam during this period including the 443rd Troop Carrier Group the 44th Service group represented in this collection the 3rd Combat Cargo Group and the 1080th QM Quartermaster Company. Which unit our GI belonged to or was seconded to is unclear the situation at Dinjan seems to have been fairly fluid and informal with the risky and rather impetuous nature of running missions "Over The Hump" as the Himalaya crossing was referred to lending itself to some fairly esoteric variations on traditional military roles and conventions. An unofficial grouping of images with many of the photos seeming to have been sent to a sweetheart back home with brief explanations of the content. There are numerous depictions of things that would naturally fascinate a U.S. serviceman positioned in Northern India: the Nimtollah burning ghats temples the Calcutta racetrack street scenes in Assam and Calcutta snake charmers beggars small reminders of home like the Red Cross "Donut Bebe" who ran a truck offering donuts and coffee every other day on base the building of a company bar and rec room the eccentric 1st Lieutenant various Fakirs C-47 transport planes flying low over the river and the day-to-day of base life. Also present in the captions are some observations on Indian culture ranging from the complimentary to the mystified; our PFC clearly and unsurprisingly had no grasp of India's caste system and few reference points for the complex social structures through which he wandered looking for excitement and distraction. An additional point on this largely forgotten wartime effort is that it inadvertently assured U.S. domination of the post-war international airline industry with a large number of the decommissioned transports subsequently being sold off and refitted for civilian air use. unknown books
1961réf. 232281961. Southern India photo album documenting an international Christian missionary medical group around Vellore Karigiri Katpadi and Kanchipuram in 1961 many photographs captioned and identify individuals. The album showcases how missionary labor operated after the end of British rule through hospitals training schools religious ceremony and organized visits into village and temple spaces. Compiled by a French speaking participant within an international Christian medical network the album centers on institutions linked to Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore where foreign and Indian personnel worked inside a system first developed under colonial era Protestant missions and then carried forward in postcolonial India through education nursing public health and evangelical presence. Photo archive of 110 Silver gelatin photographs mounted in a leather bound album most photos measure 3" x 4" album measures 9" x 12" Vellore Karigiri Katpadi Polambakkam and Kanchipuram Tamil Nadu dated by captions to 1961. Many identified individuals. Captioned pages identify "Vellore CMCH" "Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore" and a "Soirée de remise du voile aux infirmières étudiantes de dernière année Sept. 61" showing large indoor assemblies of Indian nursing students in uniform at a veil ceremony for final year nurses. Other pages name hospital streets a guest house pavilion postman colleagues and an international group including participants identified by nationality including Argentina Belgium Venezuela Australia Thailand the United States England and South India. The album also moves beyond the hospital into the surrounding countryside and sacred landscape with rice cultivation and field irrigation at Karigiri village huts pastoral scenes cattle and goats potters fuel collection pigs and ducks a cyclist returning from Sunday mass the cathedral at Katpadi and multiple views of temples and priests at Kanchipuram. Handwritten French captions guide the viewer through these scenes including "inner courtyard of a temple" "Hindu priest explaining a point of his religion" "signing the temple guest book and giving the offering" and observations of sculpture yogis village labor and local children. The 19th to early 20th century saw an increase in Protestant missionary organizations in India with schools hospitals and women's medical training programs as response both to evangelical ambition and to colonial inequalities in health care access. By 1961 India was politically independent yet this album shows how missionary medicine still organized relations between Western visitors Indian Christian institutions and local Tamil communities. Overall very good condition. A strong record of postcolonial missionary medicine in southern India showing how colonial religious systems survived through healthcare education and cross cultural authority rather than formal imperial rule alone. unknown books
1917réf. 235951917. British frontier military photo archive documenting the garrison system of the North West Frontier during the final years of the First World War 1917 to 1918 showing how the British Indian Army organized training logistics aviation medical services and daily military life across what is now Pakistan. Centered on Risalpur with additional views of Nowshera Sibi and other frontier stations the archive records the infrastructure that sustained Britain's defensive frontier against Afghanistan while thousands of Indian Army troops remained committed to imperial service overseas. Contemporary manuscript captions on many versos identify locations dates military units and events preserving an unusually well-documented record of the frontier during one of the British Empire's most militarized periods. Photo archive of 52 silver gelatin photographs most measuring approximately 3 x 5 inches British India principally Risalpur and the North West Frontier 1917 to 1918. The photographs depict cantonments parade grounds barracks military camps mounted troops cavalry exercises soldiers in formation and group portraits of officers and enlisted men. Other photographs show military hospitals and Red Cross personnel aviation facilities transport columns aerial views of cantonments engineering works fortified compounds rail infrastructure and frontier outposts. Civilian scenes appear as part of the military landscape rather than separate subjects including bazaars camel caravans village streets fruit vendors brick makers ox drawn carts river crossings market stalls and local residents interacting with soldiers. Several photographs record strategic infrastructure including the Attock Bridge mosques military compounds and river transport essential to frontier communications. Numerous versos carry contemporary inscriptions identifying subjects with captions such as "Camp of the 22nd Squadron M.G. Corps at Risalpur Dec. 1917-May 1918" "Risalpur 1918" "Mosque at Nowshera 1917" "Aeroplane accident" and "Filling ammunition belts 22nd M.G. Squadron Risalpur" substantially increasing the documentary precision of the archive. By 1917 the North West Frontier had become one of the British Empire's principal military districts supplying cavalry machine gun units aviation personnel transport and logistical support while simultaneously guarding the Afghan frontier. Risalpur developed into one of the subcontinent's major military centers housing cavalry regiments the Machine Gun Corps flying facilities and training establishments that would remain central to frontier defense through the Third Anglo Afghan War of 1919 and beyond. Photos emphasize the construction and occupation of cantonments preparation of ammunition medical organization transportation networks reconnaissance engineering and the constant interaction between British military institutions and the civilian communities surrounding them. Light surface wear with occasional corner bumps and scattered silvering; manuscript captions remain clear and legible. Overall in very good condition. A concentrated record of the British Indian Army's military infrastructure and frontier administration on the North West Frontier during the closing years of the First World War. unknown books
1890réf. 234981890. Colonial Indian labor photo archive depicting street work informal commerce transport labor and social hierarchy under British rule circa 1890s-1920s. British India depended on low-paid manual labor to move people goods food and raw materials through cities ports hill stations and military cantonments. The group contrasts workers seated on the ground with baskets tools tents carts and roadside goods against riders on horseback and passengers carried by rickshaw carriage and bullock cart. Photo archive of 16 silver gelatin photographs and black-and-white real photo postcards various sizes India circa 1890s-1920s. Marketplace sellers sit among baskets cloth tents and on the ground goods; families and workers gather beside tents and rough encampments; men pull or guide rickshaws carriages and ox-drawn carts through colonial streets. A mounted man sits formally on a white horse while views of Simla show pedestrians commercial buildings and hill-station streets associated with British administration and seasonal elite life. Additional scenes show an outdoor "Hindu barber" "Indian coolies" carrying large baskets men seated by stonework near a Gothic-style building children posed in white garments some hand written captions en verso identify locations or tasks. The archive records the everyday labor that supported colonial India before independence when caste landlessness debt and imperial wage economies shaped who carried cleaned hauled shaved sold and served. Ligh toning handling and edge wear; overall in very good condition. A late colonial documentation of Indian labor and social separation grounded in street work transport marketplace survival and the visible privileges of those being carried or served. unknown books
1900réf. 232871900. India glass lantern slide archive documenting class hierarchy dichotomy in British India with scenes of village labor bazaar exchange railway movement industrialization Sikhs and colonial cavalry circa 1900-20. Images clearly depict the class divide and caste system; villagers and laborers are shown seated on bare ground in carpentry work men and goats occupy an unpaved settlement space Sikh men stand beside a railway carriage tied to imperial transport networks a factory scene introduces mechanized industry and a formal portrait of turbaned cavalry soldiers. Photo archive of 8 glass lantern slides 3.25" x 3.25" India circa 1900 to 1920. Several slides retain manuscript captions on the mounts including "Central India" "Village School" "Bazaar Calcutta" and "MV. parannis an Indian carpentry clas." "Parannis" is probably a misspelling or misreading of "Pariahs" a historical caste/community term used in colonial-era descriptions of South Indi The British largely preserved formalized and exploited the Indian caste system rather than dismantling it. Their relationship with caste was pragmatic: caste became a tool for administration taxation labor control military recruitment and social organization across British India. The "Village School" slide shows a line of children and adults posed before a low building under dense tree cover with one figure standing forward in the open yard. The carpentry slide shows a large group of Indian boys outdoors beneath a tree seated or crouched on the ground around planks and hand tools with timber laid across the foreground and simple structures behind. The Calcutta bazaar scene places vendors baskets and goods in an open market setting under palms while the village scene presents men in loose garments in what seems to be a cattle farm setting. One slide shows Sikh men beside a railway carriage one barefoot in the foreground and others gathered near the rail car doors linking Indian bodies to the movement of goods troops and passengers through the colonial rail system. Another slide presents four uniformed soldiers in turbans possibly the Madras cavalry posed formally with boots sashes and weapons before a masonry wall. The factory view shows smoking industrial works with long roofs tracks and an extended production yard further cementing colonial industrialization within the archive. British rule in India relied on linked systems of extraction transport discipline and military force and these slides place those systems beside the people who bore their unequal social effects. Railways expanded under colonial finance and administration to move troops raw materials and commercial goods; industrial sites grew beside older economies of hand labor and bazaar trade; Indian soldiers and cavalry units served within an army organized to secure imperial control; and rural schools workshops and village scenes expose the local social world that existed under those pressures rather than outside them. Light edge wear some mount loss to several slides; no cracks or chips. Overall very good condition. British colonialism widened India's class divide by concentrating wealth transport and military power in imperial systems while leaving many Indians in village labor and low paid market work. unknown books
1870réf. 302484London: The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited 1870. 37 plates with 3 prints laid in and a portrait of Dr. Colin Rogers with notation on verso " Superintending Surgeon Madras Med. Dept. who married my Aunt Mary Anne. J.T.C. Ross.". 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Contemporary green morocco 2 minor tears to the tail of the first leaf not affecting illustration 1-1/2 inch tear to the tail of the second leaf affecting bottom center of image some staining and soiling but overall very good. Various artists including S. Austin Clarkson Stan. 37 plates with 3 prints laid in and a portrait of Dr. Colin Rogers with notation on verso " Superintending Surgeon Madras Med. Dept. who married my Aunt Mary Anne. J.T.C. Ross.". 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. A wonderful album containing images of India drawn during the first two decades of the British Raj signed by "J.T.C. Ross as belonging to Aunt Jini ." J.T.C. Ross 1823-1897 recieved his medical education at St. George's Hospital and was admitted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1845. He served as Surgeon Major with the British Bengal Army Medical Service and was eventually promoted to Deputy Surgeon General and Surgeon-General. He was also the first editor of the Indian Medical Gazzette. The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited unknown books
1917réf. 235941917. British frontier military photo archive documenting the administration of Britain's North West Frontier during the final years of the First World War and its immediate aftermath 1917 to 1919 showing how the Indian Army sustained imperial communications cavalry training transport and everyday life across what is now Pakistan. Made at stations including Nowshera Risalpur Sibi Quetta and surrounding cantonments the archive records the military infrastructure supporting British control over one of the Empire's most strategically important frontier regions bordering Afghanistan. Compiled during the years surrounding the Third Anglo Afghan crisis and the closing campaigns of the First World War the photographs preserve both the operational machinery of the frontier and the civilian landscapes through which imperial authority was exercised. Photo archive of approximately 96 sepia and black and white photographs ranging from 2 x 3 to 4 x 5 inches North West Frontier Province and Baluchistan British India 1917 to 1919. Nearly every photograph is mounted on album leaves with careful contemporary manuscript captions identifying places dates and subjects. The photographs depict cavalry exercises mounted reviews riding school instruction the 21st Lancers horse lines transport trains railway stations ferries crossing the Kabul River at Nowshera the boat bridge at Nowshera cantonment buildings military camps and barracks. Other photographs record the "Victory Sports" at Risalpur in December 1918 an aeroplane accident at Risalpur in December 1917 with multiple views of the wreckage and assembled soldiers soldiers posing with local residents officers on horseback rail travel between Nowshera and Sibi and military groups assembled before stores and equipment. Civilian life appears throughout in photographs captioned "Making bricks" "Melons" "Cooks" "Native carts Baluchistan" "The Kabul River Nowshera" "Ferry boat on Kabul River Risalpur" and market scenes at Bagaran. Additional views document Quetta Sibi Baluchistan landscapes bridges forts irrigation works mosques camel caravans washermen working along the Kabul River ox drawn transport and portraits of Punjabi Pashtun and Baluchi residents encountered throughout the frontier. The North West Frontier formed the principal buffer between British India and Afghanistan after the Durand Line agreement of 1893 and by 1917 the region had become one of the Empire's largest concentrations of cavalry transport and logistical forces. Cantonments at Nowshera and Risalpur served as major cavalry and aviation centers while Sibi and Quetta anchored the railway linking the Punjab to Baluchistan and the Bolan Pass a route essential for imperial communications and frontier defense. Rather than concentrating on combat alone this archive records the systems that sustained British rule: transport networks mounted units engineering works indigenous labor military recreation and the daily interactions between colonial personnel and local communities across the frontier. Contemporary manuscript captions throughout provide unusually precise geographical and chronological documentation. Album leaves show edge wear creasing and occasional corner losses; photographs generally remain clean. Overall in very good condition. A concentrated visual record of the military and civilian infrastructure that maintained British authority across the North West Frontier during the closing years of the First World War and the transition to the postwar imperial frontier. unknown books
1912réf. 235531912. Missionary education and colonial album depicting India circa 1912 recording Western presence in a British ruled colony through girls' schooling domestic compounds rural labor and major sites of imperial tourism. One of the first images show a group of Indian girls posed with three Western women standing behind them likely a mission school or mission supported classroom during the period when Protestant and Catholic missions made female education one of their central claims to social reform in India. The album also records the wider colonial setting around that work with Western men and women appearing in bungalows on a tennis court and among Indian workers and residents placing missionary possibility inside the everyday social and racial ordering of colonial life. Photo album of 20 silver gelatin photographs each approximately 4 x 3 inches in a 6.5 x 5 inch album India circa 1910s with one image captioned "Holgate 1912." The photos show Indian girls grouped outside a building with three Western women at the rear; children or young laborers crouched in a field; men carrying harvested material along a road; an Indian woman seated at a weaving apparatus; another photo of young Indian girls in seated position in front of grass housing units potentially implying another educational setting; other images show Western figures in colonial settings including a woman holding a tennis racket players on a tennis court with the caption "Holgate 1912" a Western man and children on the veranda of a bungalow a Western woman standing in a brick doorway a Western man with a horse before a house and a large residence set behind a lawn. Architectural and travel views include the Taj Mahal another domed Mughal or Indo Islamic building a street scene with horse drawn vehicles outside commercial buildings a rural village at the base of hills and a settlement or station in a dry mountainous landscape. At the turn of the twentieth century Western women in India came as missionaries teachers medical workers wives of colonial officials tourists and members of expatriate religious and commercial communities. Mission boards used girls' schools orphanages zenana visiting Bible instruction and medical missions to enter spaces that male missionaries could not easily reach while British colonial rule supplied the legal linguistic transport and racial framework that made such work possible and unequal. Light surface wear fading silvering and album wear with some prints unevenly toned. Overall good condition. A compact visual record of Western missionary possibility colonial domestic life Indian labor and tourist seeing in India under the British Raj. unknown books
1868réf. 45516Colombo: printed for the Christian Vernacular Education Society 1868. 12mo pp. 30; engraved title page; original stiff blue pictorial wrappers; spined ends cracked else very good. Despite the title this small pamphlet covers not only the geography of the island of what is now the country of Sir Lanka but also the people commerce and government. Only the NYPL copy in OCLC which locates no other editions. printed for the Christian Vernacular Education Society unknown books
1858réf. 022106London: Richard Bentley 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Text toned. Very Good in a Fine binding and clamshell box. Two 5" x 7-1/4" volumes in modern half polished green calf with marbled boards and matching calf corners gilt-decorated spines with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels: lxxx 337; vi 424 pages. Housed in a green cloth clamshell box. Illustrated with a folding map. Richard Bentley hardcover books
1839réf. 022098London: Smith Elder and Co. 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Fairly unobtrusive library blindstamp on frontispiece pictorial title map and several text pages. Still an attractive clean example of a scarce title in a Fine clamshell box. Modern half polished calf with marbled boards and matching calf corners 5-1/2" x 9"; xvii 3 283 1 pages housed in a red buckram clamshell box. Lacking the printed title page but with the lithographed additional pictorial title and illustrated with a hand-colored map 8 engraved plates 7 of which are hand-colored including 1 folding and several text engravings. In 1834 the author's husband was posted to Cutch a western district of present-day Gujarat India and there she gathered the notes and made the drawings that would form the basis for this her first publication. [Smith, Elder and Co.] hardcover books
