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Category Archives: 19th century India
What would you gamble for a better life?
Many people of the British Empire were ready to risk anything for a better future. People emigrating to India endured a three-month voyage on ships that were tossed about like corks. Then, they had to cope with conditions so foreign … Continue reading
Posted in British Raj, Charles Dickens, Downton Abbey, the bibighar, the Indian Mutiny, The Lucknow Courtesans: Indian Queens of a Golden Age, The Memorial Well, The Music of Lucknow After the 1857 Rebellion, The Music of Lucknow after the 1857 Rebellion, The princely states of India
Tagged Azimullah Khan, British Raj, Confessions of a Thug, the cult of murder
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The great photographic adventurers of 19th Century India
I recently attended a meeting of the Historical Photographic Society and had the pleasure of seeing an image by one of my favourite Victorian adventurer-photographers. Samuel Bourne dragged his heavy wooden camera and tripod across rivers, deserts, up and down … Continue reading
Posted in 19th century India, 19th century photography and photographic techniques, spiritualism, spiritualistic phenomena, spirit photography, Rajphoto.com, Uncategorized, victorian India
Tagged british photographs, British Raj, download indian images, indian photography art, murder mystery books, photography photographs, sam bourne, samuel bourne photography
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Shadows of Empire
Posted in 19th century India, 19th century Lucknow, memorial to women and children at Cawnpore, the "Great Game", the bibighar, the British Raj, the Indian Mutiny, The Lucknow Courtesans: Indian Queens of a Golden Age, The Lucknow Courtesans: Indian Queens of a Golden Age, The Music of Lucknow After the 1857 Rebellion, The Music of Lucknow After the 1857 Rebellion, Uncategorized
Tagged Azimullah Khan, British Raj, Lucknow courtesans, The 1857 Indian Rebellion, the Seige of Lucknow
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A hero, novelist and an Englishman who was beloved by the Indian people whose lives he improved
Few people today know the name, Philip Meadows Taylor. He came out to India when he was barely fifteen. Like many who came to the subcontinent, he had few resources in England. He did not attend Haileybury, the training school … Continue reading
Posted in 19th century India, A hero, novelist and an Englishman who was beloved by the Indian people whose lives he improved, A hero, novelist and an Englishman who was beloved by the Indian people whose lives he improved, Nizam of Hyderabad, The princely states of India
Tagged Confessions of a Thug, crime in victorian India, Phillip Meadows Taylor, the Thugs, Victorian Indian
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Azimullah Khan: behind the scenes leader of the 1857 rebellion
This is a portrait, believed to be drawn from life by Richard Doyle, uncle of Arthur Conan Doyle, of the man who stood behind the scenes and pushed India into war: Azi mullah Khan Much is known about this shrewd … Continue reading
Posted in 19th century India, 19th century Lucknow, the British Raj, the Indian Mutiny
Tagged Azimullah Khan, leader of the first Indian war of independence, Lucknow courtesans, the "Indian Mutiny", The British Raj, the first war of Indian independence, The Great Game, the massacre at Cawnpore, the Rebellion, the Rebellion of 1857, the Seige of Lucknow
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The Lucknow Courtesans: Indian Queens of a Golden Age
They were perhaps the least talked about women in colonial India. Yet, they were the standard bearers of a unique and exquisitely refined culture rooted in the fabled city of the Nawabs, Lucknow. Universally known as the loveliest entertainers in … Continue reading
Posted in 19th century India, 19th century Indian prostituion, the British Raj, victorian India
Tagged art exhibit India's fabled city, colonial India, fabled city of India, Lucknow, Lucknow courtesans, Musée Guimet in Paris. ... India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow / Une cour royale en Inde: Lucknow, Nawabs, palaces of the Nawabs, The Art of Courtly Lucknow exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Stephen Markel and Tushara Bindu Gude
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Opium and fabulous gems: India’s importance to the British Empire
Lithograph by Emily Eden showing one of the favourite horses of Maharaja Ranjit Singh with the head officer of his stables and his collection of fabulous j ewels including the Kohinoor diamond marked as number 1 India has been … Continue reading
Crime in Victorian India: the Incredible Cult of Murder and the Drug Trade
Cult members of thuggee For three hundred years, the subcontinent harboured one of the most incredible religions conceived by the mind of man: Thuggee, the cult that gave it’s members a divine duty to commit murder. The mythological story of … Continue reading
Posted in 19th century India, victorian India
Tagged British colonialism, British Raj, Calcutta, Confessions of a Thug, cult of murder, drug traffic, Ghaziapur, l murders, opium, opium auction, opium clippers, opium factories, opium production, opium smuggling, Patna, Philip Meadows Taylor, ritual killing, secret Indian cult, serial murder, Temple of Doom, thuggee, William Sleeman
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