Elephant capital from ancient monolith, Sankasya, Fatehgarh District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Printed from a poor quality negative, with damage to emulsion at edges, possibly due to premature drying of collodion. Side view of the capital, described in A. Cunningham, 'Four reports made during the years 1862-63-64-65' (A.S.I. vol. I, Simla, 1871), pp. 274-...
Inscribed pillar at Bhitari. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of pillar, with broken capital, and inscription on base. Described in A. Cunningham, 'Four reports made during the years 1862-63-64-65' (A.S.I. vol. I, Simla, 1871), pp. 97-99. See also North-West Provinces list, p. 229: '[The inscription] chiefly r...
Pillar with lion capital at Latiya, Ghazipur District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the pillar (uninscribed). The top of the capital stands on the ground beside the pillar. North-West Provinces list pp. 232-233.
Close view of inscribed monolith at Bhagalpur. Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
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Genre: Architectural Photography Credited to Caney in Bloch's list, but see A. Cunningham and H.B.W. Garrick, 'Report of tours in North and South Bihar, in 1880-81' (A.S.I. col. XVI, Calcutta, 1883), p.130: 'About half a mile to the east of the village of Bhagalpur, and quite close to the banks...
General view of inscribed pillar at Kahaon. Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
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Genre: Architectural Photography Credited to Caney in Bloch's list, but to Garrick in A. Cunningham and H.B.W. Garrick, 'Report of tours in North and South Bihar, in 1880-81' (A.S.I. col. XVI, Calcutta, 1883), pl. xxix, where it is reproduced as a lithograph. Described pp. 129-30.
Ruins of a barakhambha or twelve-pillared hall, Rath, Hamirpur District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of building, partly obscured by trees. J.D. Beglar, 'Report of a tour in Bundelkhand and Malwa, 1871-72; and in the Central Provinces, 1873-74' (A.S.I. vol. VII, Calcutta, 1878), p. 22: 'Raat contains two ancient-looking Barakhambas or twelve-pillar...
General view of the Chaurasi Gumbaz, Kalpi, Jalaun District. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Genre: Architectural Photography The tomb known as the Chaurasi Gumbaz, or 'Eighty-four Domes', is said to be the tomb of Lodi Shah Badshah. A. Führer, 'The Monumental Antiquities and Inscriptions in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh' (Allahabad, 1891), p. 113: 'The only remarkable building....