Entrance to the Sita Bangira (Sitabenga) Cave, Ramgarh, Chota Nagpur. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Landscape Photography 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 568-569: 'A large cavern high up in the rocks, 45 feet deep and six feet high at the entrance ... The cave is approached from below by semi-circular steps and contains numerous Brahmanical sculptures, one o...
Close view of entrance to temple at Pakbirra, Manbhum District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of doorway, built in characteristic manner of overlapping stones narrowing to form a triangular opening. Duplicate of Photo 1002 (151).
West front of the Mukteshvara Temple, Bhubaneshwar, showing entrance 'torana' or gateway. Photographer: Cornish, William Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Head-on view of the ornate gateway, with the temple behind (largely obscured by the gateway). This print appears as pl. 14 of M.H. Arnott's 'Report with photographs of the repairs executed to some of the principal temples at Bhubanesvar...between 1898 and 1903' ...
General view from the east of the Daftar Khana, Fatehpur Sikri. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Daftar Khana or Record Office. Head-on view of the massive doorway in the Buland Darwaza. Reproduced in photogravure in E.W. Smith, 'The Moghul architecture of Fathpur-Sikri' (4 vols, Allahabad, 1894-98), vol 3, pl. 68.