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191. Photo 146/1(193)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(193)
Title:
Sindhudurg Fort, Malwan [Malvan]. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Shivajee placed Malwan on the map when he built (mostly by artizans lent by the Portuguese) Sindqdrug [Sindhudurg] - The Fortress of the Seas - as the first step to raising a navy with which to pursue the same tactics of raid and plunder by sea as has worked so well in his forays on land against...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

192. Photo 146/1(194)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(194)
Title:
The Main Gate of Sindadrug [Sindhudurg] Fort. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Shivajee placed Malwan on the map when he built (mostly by artizans lent by the Portuguese) Sindadrug [Sindhudurg] - The Fortress of the Seas - as the first step to raising a navy with which to pursue the same tactics of raid and plunder by sea as has worked so ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

193. Photo 146/1(195)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(195)
Title:
Sindadrug [Sindhudurg] Fort, The Konkun Coast. Sally port unto the women's sea bathing beach. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Shivajee placed Malwan on the map when he built (mostly by artizans lent by the Portuguese) Sindadrug [Sindhudurg] - The Fortress of the Seas - as the first step to raising a navy with which to pursue the same tactics of raid and plunder by sea as has worked so well in his forays on land against...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

194. Photo 146/1(196)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(196)
Title:
Fort Sindadrug, Malwan. The Konkun Coast. View from the main gate looking towards the town. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Fort Padamgad, what is left of it, is the last collection of rocks nearest the shore. (Continued from previous leaf) Wide scattered field of reefs and islets, the nearest of which is Padamgarh where was Shivajee's naval depot. Time has since pushed over his masonry ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

195. Photo 146/1(197)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(197)
Title:
Malwan, The Konkun Coast. A large pattimar waiting to enter the port. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Fort Padamgad to starboard, the high tide having covered the dangerous reefs as seen in the upper picture (196). Malwan, at one time belonging to the State of Kolhapore, but named Fort Augustus when held by Bombay troops after its capture in 1768 pending payment of the indemnity imposed by the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

196. Photo 146/1(198)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(198)
Title:
Malwan, The Konkun Coast. Sindadrug Fort, the north-west bastion. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The curtain walls are crumbling. The fort now serves no useful purpose, and are hardly likely to be repaired. In the courtyard is the impression of a foot in mortar hardened to cement. Local tradition ascribes it to the great Shivajee himself. Malwan, at one time belonging to the State of Kolh...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

197. Photo 146/1(199)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(199)
Title:
Malwan Port. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of Sindadrug from the deck of the Bombay ferry steamer entering. Malwan, at one time belonging to the State of Kolhapore, but named Fort Augustus when held by Bombay troops after its capture in 1768 pending payment of the indemnity imposed by the Govt. of Bomb...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

198. Photo 146/1(200)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(200)
Title:
Cemetery in rear of Rajkote, Malwan. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The near grave is that of Sergeant Garvey, Bombay Artillery. The far one is that of Lieut. Col. Webb 2/7th Bo. N.I. (114th Mahrattas, then 10th Bn. £th Mahratta Light Infantry, 1820). Following the operations of Sir Lionel Smith in the Konkun in 1815 the coasta...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

199. Photo 146/1(201)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(201)
Title:
Memorial to Colonel Webb 2/7th Bo. N.I., Malawan. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
He was stricken with a mortal sickness but yet hoped to die in his native land. It was too much to hope for, but his friends arranged for a ship then loading at Goa for Europe to call and pick him up. So he sat up on his couch and gazed out to sea. In a day or two the ship with all sail set arri...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

200. Photo 146/1(202)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(202)
Title:
A Hindu chhatri memorial of cremation of a man of a military caste and the sati of his widow, on the foreshore or Malwan. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Following the operations of Sir Lionel Smith in the Konkun in 1815 the coastal towns and fortresses of Malwan, Riari and Vengurla were ceded by the Rajah of Kolhapore in perpetuity to the East India Company. Detachments of the Bombay Artillery than occupied Sinnadrug and Rajkote. The infantry ma...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item