Panoramic view of Srinagar, 1862

Came across this stunning painting in ‘Travels in Ladâk, Tartary, and Kashmir’ (1862) by Henry D’Oyley Torrens. The places marked in the painting (starting from left and going in clockwise direction):
1. Shankaracharya
2. The Capital city
3. Hari Parbat
4. Naseem Bagh
5. Island of Son Lank (Golden Island)
6. Island of Rop Lank (Silver Island) or Island of Chinars or Char Chinari of nowadays
7. Shalimar Bagh
8. Nishat Bagh

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Kashmir, 1944

From Louise Morgan’s Flickr Collection [check out the complete collection] having photos of India taken by one Major E Brookman in 1943/4. Louise bought the collection in 1980s from an antique shop in Seven Dials, Brighton, UK for around a dollar. She now plans to visit some of these places.

‘The Greengrocer’

Third Bridge – Fateh Kadal, Srinagar July 1944

Gulmarg 1944
Gulmarg, Summer 2008

Shalamar
(I am really intrigued to see that the garden used to be referred as Shalamar, a name that Kashmiris still use even though now Shalimar is in more currency)

Entrance of Shalimar Garden. Summer 2008.
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Kashmir Yesterday, India Today 1990

Photographs from the ‘Kashmir’ section of 15th Anniversary issue of India Today published in 1990. If there is a Kashmir ‘special’ issue today in any Magazine, you will probably see similar form of story telling through pictures. Photographers who first figured out the Kashmir template include Raghu Rai, Prashant Panjair and Pramod Pushkarna.

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