The Sringiri Swami. Photographer: Henry Dixon (attrib.)
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Full-length seated portrait of the Jagad Guru (high priest of the Smart Brahmins at Sringeri), his chair placed in a doorway, with an attendant standing on either side. Bowring visited Sringeri during his tour of 1863-64: '...I proceeded to Sringiri, a famous matha or monastery, where resided th...
Kota temples and priest, Kotagiri, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography India Museum No. 1137. Two open-ended thatched structures, with priest standing in foreground. Plate xxii of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).