Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length portrait against a plain background. Exhibited in 'India Through the Lens', Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, December 2000 to March 2001. Exhibited in 'India: Pioneering Photographers 1850-1900', Brunei Gallery, London, 11 October - 12 Decem...
[Scholar with book, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
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Three-quarter length portrait against a plain background of the bespectacled figure of a Muslim scholar posed with a book by an unknown photographer and taken in the early 1860s.
Half-length portrait against a plain backdrop of a Koch man holding a thick-bladed agricultural knife. Precise location unknown, but probably from Cooch Behar (modern Koch Bihar).
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Half-length portrait against a plain background of a Manipuri man standing with a polo mallet. His face and arms are decorated with painting. Second copy neg at B.530. Exhibited in 'India Through the Lens', Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, December 2000 ...
Portrait of a religious mendicant from Bangladesh by an unknown photographer, early 1860s. It shows a dervish of the Sufi Chishti order. Sufis are devotees of the mystical branch of Islam. In this case the man is a follower of the Indian saint Muin-u'd-din Chishti, whose shrine in Ajmer remains ...
[Portrait of an elderly man wearing a skull-cap, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
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Half-length portrait of an elderly Muslim man wearing a skull cap against a plain background taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s. This print is one of a series of portrait studies of individuals and groups from Eastern Bengal (modern Bangladesh and Assam).
Portrait of a Dosadh 'syce' or groom taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s. The aboriginal Dosadh tribe were traditionally associated with Bihar though some families lived in Dacca during the nineteenth century.
[Portrait of a (?)Manipuri man.] Photographer: Unknown
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Half-length portrait against a plain background. Part of the background has also been filled in in the negative to make the figure's head stand out more prominently. Identification as a Manipuri is only tentative.
This photograph shows a half-length portrait, against a plain background, of a Kaibartha man posed with a net taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.