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India

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 240 Collections and/or Records:

The Sir Walter Elliot Archive

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-1860
Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of seven Indian copper plate charters in Sanskrit recrding land grants, dating from the 5th to 16th centuries CE, and of three volumes containing rubbings of inscriptions from different regions of India, collected by Sir Walter Elliot throughout the 19th century.

Dates: 5th-19th centuries

The Stud Bull, (Gaolao), 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2642
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the stud bull, Gaolao breed, in a barn at the Telinkheri Cattle Breeding Farm in India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Youth of Krishna Among the Cowherds, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3290
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Rajput painting in the collection of Dr. Ananda K Coomaraswamy showing 'the youth of Krishna among the cowherds' from the book, "Indian Thought: Past and Present" by R W Frazer in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Tippu's Rock, Bellary, [India], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2535
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Tippu's Rock, part of a fortress, in India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Todas at Home, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2631
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Toda family in front of their home, a barrel-shaped, thatched-roof structure in a woodland in Southern India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Treading Out Corn, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/613
Scope and Contents

Photograph of six cows tethered together treading out the corn while an Indian man watches them in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

[Two Teams of Bullocks Drawing Carts in India], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2889
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two teams of bullocks drawing carts along a road in India in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Typical Head of a Jafferabadi Buffalo, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2691
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the head of a Jafferabadi buffalo in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

United States Office of War Information: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1944-1946

 File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/A/4
Scope and Contents

Correspondence to Percy Johnson-Marshall, in his role as General Secretary to the Service Arts Technical Organization, from the United States Office of War Information concerning subscriptions to newsletters and the possible loan of the exhibition entitled "American Housing in War and Peace" for display in India.

Dates: 1944-1946

Untitled lane, c 1914

 Item — Box 3 of 7: Series Coll-1167/E; Series Coll-1167/F; Series Coll-1167/G
Identifier: Coll-1167/G/10/27
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

27 Glass plate negatives likely to have been created by Patrick, Alasdair or Arthur Geddes between 1914 and 1924, ethnographical and documentary photography of various sites in India.

Dates: c 1914