[www.keralites.net] Old Photos -Various Vintage Photos-Part 27

 

Studio Photograph of Ramanand Kayastha taken on 31st December 1901 at Govindgarh, Rewa Madhya Pradesh Ramanand Kayasthawas an employee of Political agent of Baghelkhand agency. This photograph is contributed by his grandsonDr.P.N.Shrivastava

Famous Hunter and Author Jim Corbett after Killing the Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag in 1925 The first victim of this leopard was a villager of village Benji. For eight years, no one dared move alone at night on the road between the Hindu shrines of Kedarnath and Badrinath, for it passed through the leopard's territory, and few villagers would leave their houses. The leopard was apparently so desperate for food that it would break down doors, leap through windows, claw through the mud or thatch walls of huts and drag people from them, devouring them. The British Parliament requested the aid of Corbett in the autumn of 1925.Corbett's notes revealed that this leopard, an elderly male, was suffering from serious gum recession and tooth loss. Analysis of many of the man-eaters taken by Corbett and other hunters has shown a pattern, in which the animals are too sick or compromised to hunt their normal prey, and thus turn to hunting humans, who are much easier to hunt and kill than wild game.

Hindu Women Bathing in the Yamuna river before worship at the Birla Temple - Delhi 1946 Photographer:Margaret Bourke-White Source: Life Archive hosted by Google

Indian Man Practicing Yoga - May 1949 Photographer:Eliot Elisofon Source: Life Archive hosted by Google

Two Male Musicians and Two Female Dancers - Eastern Bengal 1860's Two male musicians carrying a 'dhol', a type of double-ended drum, and a stringed instrument known as 'sarangi' or fiddle. They are accompanied by two female dancers.Source: British Library

Group of Five Men in front of a Building - Eastern Bengal 1860's Source: British Library

Unidentified Ethnic Group from Eastern Bengal - 1860's Source: British Library

Group of Musicians and Dancers - Eastern Bengal 1860's Source: British Library

Portrait of a Man of the Kochh Mandai Tribe Holding a Thick-Bladed Agricultural Knife - Eastern Bengal 1860's The exact location of this tribe's origin is unknown. At the time of this photograph they inhabited tracts of jungle to the north of Dacca in eastern Bengal or modern Bangladesh.Source: British Library

Five Sankharis (Shell-Cutters and Bracelet Makers) - Eastern Bengal 1860's Sankharis were generally followers of the Hindu gods Vishnu or Krishna and usually vegetarian. The shells used for manufacturing bracelets for Hindu women were imported from the Gulf of Manaar.This is a trade which is recorded in written records at least as far back as the tenth century.Source: British Library

Portrait of a Religious Mendicant (Darwesh / Dervish) from Eastern Bengal - 1860's This person is a dervish of the Sufi Chishti order. Sufis are devotees of the mystical branch of Islam. In this photograph the man is a follower of the Indian saint Muin-u'd-din Chishti, whose shrine in Ajmer remains a popular Muslim pilgrimage centre today.Source: British Library

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