Close view of base of Asokan Edict Pillar, showing part of inscription, Lauriya Nandangarh, Champaran District. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
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Genre: Architectural Photography Showing evidence of later graffiti scratched into the lower portion, and part of the iron railings round the column. See note at Photo 1002/1 (26).
Remains at Lauriya Nandangarh. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across a small lake towards the remains of a mound, purpose unidentified. See A. C. L. Carlleyle, 'Report of Tours in Gorakhpur, Saran, and Ghazipur in 1877-78-79 and 80' (A.S.I., vol. XXII, Calcutta, 1885), p. 46: 'I also visited the great mound at Nao...
View of rock with Asoka inscriptions, showing eastern face with edicts I-XI, Shahbazgarhi, Peshawar District. Photographer: Joseph Daviditch Melik Beglar
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Similar viewpoint to print 1140, but a little more distant. Bloch describes this as a 'duplicate plate of smaller size,' but it is similar rather than a duplicate. It is unclear when Craddock (the photographer credited with prints 1140 and 1142) visited the site, but it was probably around the t...