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231. Photo 146/1(232)

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Photo 146/1(232)
Title:
Riari [Redi] Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The low walls and bastions from the south. The citadel is high up in rear. This stronghold was assaulted by a force under Sir Wm. Grant Keir. The stormers were from H.Ms 89th Foot. They were drawn up on the seashore opposite the breach made by the artillery, and u...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

232. Photo 146/1(233)

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Photo 146/1(233)
Title:
Riari [Redi] Fort, The Konkun Coast. The Khem Savant's palace. Presumably they lived at Savantwadi only after they were dispossessed of their coastline. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This stronghold was assaulted by a force under Sir Wm. Grant Keir. The stormers were from H.Ms 89th Foot. They were drawn up on the seashore opposite the breach made by the artillery, and under cover. The lower parts of ramparts were carried and the assault colu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

233. Photo 146/1(234)

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Title:
Riari [Redi] Fort, The Konkun Fort. Graves of 11 British soldiers buried within the fort. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
In the assault 3 Europeans and 5 Indian sepoys were killed, but among the 25 wounded perhaps other soldiers died of their wounds. For a short while a company of the 89th remained as a garrison, after which Riari became a sanatorium for British troops. This may account for the additional graves.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

234. Photo 146/1(235)

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Title:
Akhali Islets, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Between Riari and the frontier of Portuguese India. Picture is taken near low tide. The point on the right is the mainland.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

235. Photo 146/1(236)

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Title:
Riari [Redi] Bay, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Entrance to creek which runs by the outer north walls of the fort. In 1793 the country ship ‘Myrtle’ officered only by Europeans from Mangalore to Larwar with a cargo of rice, was seized by Khem Savant’s gallevats and taken into the creek and despoiled. They boasted...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

236. Photo 146/1(237)

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Photo 146/1(237)
Title:
Distant view of Riari, on the rise bordering the creek. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The ruins are now so closely planted, within and without, that no comprehensive picture can be taken of it. Tiger hill stands out to the northward.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

237. Photo 146/1(238)

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Photo 146/1(238)
Title:
Tiracol Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Never of much military strength and now believed to be a sub-divisional administrative or police post. On the north bank of Pernem creek, the boundary of the province of the Nova Conquista. Geographically the fort is a small enclave within what was formerly S...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

238. Photo 146/1(239)

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Photo 146/1(239)
Title:
Tiracol Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The bungalow, right on the foreshore, of the local official. It was trim and airy and seductive. He was decidedly 'of the country', as the majority of officials are in this benignly ruled territory, where violent crime is rare. On the north bank of Pernem cree...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

239. Photo 146/1(240)

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Title:
Aguada Fortress, Goa, Portuguese India. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Commands the passage of the Mandovi River into Panjim and Old Goa, besides the anchorage itself. Noted for its copious supply of the purest drinking water (Agoa = water). In the days of ‘Sail’, it was a noted port of call by vessels of all nations here to fill t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

240. Photo 146/1(241)

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Title:
Aguada Fortress, Goa, Portuguese India. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The lower battery looking east. Cabo on the far side of the river’s mouth (Mandovi). The far point is Mormugao Harbour, on the far side of River Zuari. Aguada Fortress commands the passage of the Mandovi River into Panjim and Old Goa, besides the anchorage itself. Noted for its copious supply ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item