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India

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 240 Collections and/or Records:

Lift Scoop, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/180
Scope and Contents

Photograph of men standing around a lift scoop in the jungle in the early 20th century India.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Mahābhārata, illustrated manuscript scroll, 1795 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 510
Scope and Contents A monumental epic (or perhaps more correctly a ‘chronicle’) dated as a text to about 400 BCE – 400 CE, the Mahābhārata consists of dramatic narrative and sermonising didactic on ethics and moral law (dharma) as played out in the lives of two groups of dynastic cousins who fought over control of Bhāratavarṣa, present day central north India. It is one of the two major epics of ancient India, the...
Dates: 1795 C.E.

Malvi Bull, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2647
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Malvi bull with an Indian man holding its lead standing in a farm yard in front of a barn in India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Malvi Bull and Bullock, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1274
Scope and Contents

PhotographS of a Malvi bull and a Malvi bullock standing in a paddock with an Indian man holding their harness in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Mango Tree in Full Fruit, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/78
Scope and Contents

Photograph by G N Collins in the October 1911 edition of the National Geographic Magazine of a mango tree in full fruit in India.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Manuscript of Walter Bruce Davis

 Collection
Identifier: MS DAV 3
Scope and Contents

Typed manuscript entitled 'Alexander Duff; Prince of Indian Missionaries'. 338 pages

Dates: 1975

Marwaree Women, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1450
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two Marwaree women dressed in saris and jewellery in the early 20th century India. The text beneath the image notes that the, 'Marwaree are the money lenders of India.' and 'their women, as shown above, wear picturesque dresses of bright colours.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Material relating to Bishop Kenneth Cragg, and to religious subjects

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1556
Identifier: Coll-1757
Content Description The ms and ts/printed items are: 1 x copy ts sheet 'Islam in India' [1961 statistics], 1p 1 x ts paper, untitled, but concerned with 'talks about Islam', and referring to 'four fortnightly evening meetings, sponsored jointly by the Student Christian Movement and the Islamic Cultural Centre ... held at the Student Movement House in London' [1963], 7pp 1 x copy sheet...
Dates: 1961-2003

Mehsana Buffalo Bull, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/784
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Mehsana buffalo bull in a paddock in India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Mehsana Buffalo Cow, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/785
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Mehsana Buffalo cow standing in a paddock with three Indian men in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s