Bene-Israel of Bombay. Photographer: Johnson, William
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of five men, posed against a photomontaged background of Malabar Hill. 'In the island of Bombay and on the adjoining coast of the continent, from the Puna road to the Bankot river, there is a population of 'Bene-Israel' amounting to about 8,000 or 10,000 ...
Goanese Christians [at Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Two couples, posed against a largely blank background. The men wear European clothes. 'These native Christians are an exceedingly quiet and peaceable set of people. At Goa, many of them are engaged in farming, and in the practice of various handicrafts. In Bomb...
Coonbies (Roman Catholics of Salsette) [at Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of four men with a small cart, against a blanked-out background. 'The cultivators of the Shudra caste are the most respectable of the converts. It is of them...that the two following photographs are illustrative. The men, it will be observed, have a modif...