King of Nepal Maharaj Dhiraj Surendra Bikram Sah and other Members of a Darbar - 1863

This Photograph shows the King of Nepal, Maharaj Dhiraj Surendra Bikram Sah, (ruled 1846-81), Col George Ramsay, the British Resident, who represented the Government of India as Ambassador (Nepal was otherwise closed to Europeans), is on the King's right. Raj Guru, the chief Hindu priest of Nepal, is on the King's left. Sitting on Colonel Ramsay's right is one of Jang Bahadur's brothers, probably Jagat Shamsher.

Photographer: Clarence Comyn Taylor
Source: British Library (bl.uk)

Three Hindu Priests Writing Religious Texts in the Jammu and Kashmir - 1895

Source: British Library (bl.uk)

Two Maratha Boys from Akalkot - Bombay (Mumbai) 1867

Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon

Source: British Library (bl.uk)

Twenty Four Students and their teacher of the London Mission Girls' Boarding School, Bangalore - 1867

Photographer: Henry Dixon

Source: British Library (bl.uk)

Professor of Astronomy Pandit Bapudeva Sastri teaching a class at Queen's College - Varanasi (Benares) 1870

Photographer: Brajo Gopal Bromochary

Source: British Library (bl.uk)

A Street Barber Servicing his Customer - India c1880

Source: 19cphoto.com

Contributor: Anthony Davis (antiqphoto@earthlink.net)