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Colonial India Railway Training SchoolABAA

British India Railway and Military Administrative Staff Photo Archive Documenting Colonial Transportation Military Administration and Wartime Logistics circa 1930s-1943

1930réf. 236621930. British Indian railway and military administrative staff photo archive circa 1930s to 1943 documenting the trained Indian clerical instructional stores and supervisory personnel who operated institutions central to colonial transportation and wartime logistics. The principal photograph depicts the instructional and clerical staff of the Railway Training School at Bina the first Area School established by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway which operated there from 1926 until its transfer to Bhusawal in 1962. The two dated portraits extend this administrative record to the Rawalpindi Arsenal in 1942-43 and the Cantonment Board at Ambala in 1941 placing railway education beside military supply and cantonment government during the Second World War. Photo archive of 3 Large silver gelatin photographs mounted on cardstock Each Photographer boards measure 12 x 16 inches and Photograph 8½ x 11 inches Bina Rawalpindi and Ambala India circa early 1940s. The Bina portrait identifies approximately sixty members of the "Instructional & clerical staff R.T.S. Bina" posed in six rows before a tiled railway building bearing the sign "The Railway Training School." A second photograph captioned "Clerical staff including Stores Branch of Rawalpindi Arsenal" records employees photographed at the departure of S. Avtar Singh in 1942-43; a printed roster identifies staff by row and includes many locals. The third photograph records a farewell to Lieutenant Colonel G. Leslie-Mold president of the Cantonment Board at Ambala on April 25 1941 with British military officers and Indian civilian officials identified beneath the image. Leslie-Mold later served as Assistant Adjutant General and Director of Personnel Services at Army Headquarters in India. Railway schools developed as the expanding colonial network required standardized instruction in traffic control station procedure accounting freight handling signaling and the clerical routines through which trains goods and personnel were coordinated across long distances. Railways allowed the British administration to move troops rapidly supply cantonments and arsenals connect agricultural and mineral districts with ports and impose common schedules and bureaucratic procedures across the colony; they also created a large Indian technical and clerical workforce whose knowledge kept the system operating. The portraits record this institutional hierarchy with European officers occupying senior positions while Indian instructors accountants clerks store employees and subordinate officials form the numerical body of each organization. Surface wear toning rubbed edges corner losses and occasional marks to the mounts; photographs remain generally clear and well defined. Overall in good condition. A concentrated visual record of the Indian personnel who sustained railway instruction military provisioning and cantonment administration within the transport and defense infrastructure of late British rule. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis550,00 $US≈ 492,30 €

Girls School in IndiaABAA

Certificate of Appreciation to Vicereine of India Lady Hardinge of Penshurst For Her Support of The Hindu Girls School of Delhi 1914

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

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis385,00 $US≈ 344,61 €

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