Mormagao [Mormugao] Harbour, Portuguese India. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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After an acrimonious controversy as to the respective merits of the route for a railway from Bellary to the coast at Karwar (all in British India) or one via Castle Rock to Mormagao, the latter was selected, and is now known as The Western India Portuguese Railway. The concession included the pr...
Sadashevgad [Fort], The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography The bartizan (overhanging turret) at the highest point of the fort. After its capture from Tipoo Sultan the garrison was found by the Bombay Army. The European gunners lived in the fort; the Sepoy line being at Chiticul, a mile away, where the chowki for confine...
Ramnatah Temple, near Sadashevgad. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography [It is] where a notorious dacoit named Gidda Gomerjee, who had terrorised the district for twenty years had taken up quarters with his followers. A detachment of the 1-3rd Battery of Sepoys (2-5th Mahratta Light Infantry) from the fort was sent out to round up t...