Aye Cheshmay Tamasha Jhoom Zara
Poplar Avenue From Francis Frith’s album. Around 1850s to 1870s. via: Victoria and Albert Museum. |
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in bits and pieces
Poplar Avenue From Francis Frith’s album. Around 1850s to 1870s. via: Victoria and Albert Museum. |
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The Dal Lake Where the Lotus Lilies Grow from
‘Wild flowers of Kashmir’ by B. O. Coventry (1923)
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Back waters of Dal Lake by Bill Strong. October 1975 |
‘On road to Gulmarg’ by Bill Strong. January 1976 |
‘View from Shankaracharya Hill ‘ by Bill Strong. January 1976 |
Checkout his complete Kashmir Album over at Flickr here
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Baramulla |
Background, Fort Hari Parbat, Srinagar |
Beaters at lunch during a hunt |
Kashmiri Carriers |
Kashmiri Children |
Doonaga |
Design of a Doonaga |
Plaits |
Breakfast Camp |
Liddar Valley |
Entrance to the Liddar Valley |
Pandritan Temple ruins |
Post Office and club at Achibal |
Sunset |
From ‘Indian Memories: Recollections of Soldiering Sport, Etc.’ (1915) by Sir Robert Baden-Powell
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The flip side of reads:
“near the Dal lake banks close to the garden of shalamar” |
Readers were easily able to identify the place as old Harwan Reservoir. The structure still stands.
from a book published in 1959 |
Although Edward Powys Mathers is more famous for ‘Bilhana: Black Marigolds’ (1919), which was later used by John Steinbeck for dramatic purposes in his American novel ‘Cannery Row’ (1945), Edward Powys Mathers was also one of the first translators of Kshemendra’s Smayamatrika.
His english version came out as ‘Harlot’s Breviary’ in volume 2 of book ‘Easter Love’ (1927).
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The book was available at Digital library of India but the reading method provided there is not too easy. So I have recompiled and uploaded the book to archive.org
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This postcard came with no date and only description: ‘cashmerian dancers’.
John Burke, 1868-69 |
By Geoffroy Millias. from ‘Irene Petrie : Missionary to Kashmir’ (1903). |
At Shah Hamadan By Brian Brake, 1957 |
by Douglas Waugh (late 1950s, early 1960s) |
From the book “Tikkus’ tourist & shopping guide of Kashmir covering Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh ” (1970) by Bharat Tikku. |
2008 |
“In the upper part of the city the banks are lined with houseboats in which the visitors live. But lower down these banks, which are sometimes twenty and thirty feet high, have a very interesting and varied life at the water’s edge, where you find laundrymen and laundrywomen at intervals all the way along, and bathers, sometimes composed of groups of men, others of groups of women, and again men and women together. As a rule this bathing takes place at the foot of some of the wide stone steps that lead up from the water to the upper level of the bank, and frequently in the vicinity of a temple or mosque. There are also a number of small bath-houses, without roofs, and divided into very tiny little cabinets that are hardly large enough for a single person. These are indulged in by the more fortunate, or the better-to- do classes, who constitute but a very small percentage of the total bathing population.
This bathing, too, is a very interesting process to witness, especially the dressing, for, while the men are rather indifferent as to how much or how little clothing they may have on, the women are exceedingly modest and rarely, if ever, is there the least exposure of any portion of the body besides the arms, and head and feet. They go into the river with one dress on and when they have bathed they have not only washed their bodies but the garments they have been wearing, and when they come out they have on the bank, or steps, another garment which they put on, and so skillful are they in making this change that it is almost impossible to tell how it is done. One moment they are clad in the wet, clinging clothes which they have worn in the river, and the next by a rapid sleight- of-hand transformation they are dressed in dry garments of most pleasing hue.”
~ ‘Our summer in the vale of Kashmir’ (1915) by Frederick Ward Denys
Manchali (1973)
In the background: view of Kashmir
Hera Pheri (1976)
In the background: Char Chinari
Can’t be sure but both look like works of D.N. Walli.
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Previously:
Wall from Junglee (1961)