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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 146 Subject Forts and Fortifications

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. Photo 146/1(208)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(208)
Title:
Newti Fort Interior, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
In ruins and desolation. The Bombay Government left it ungarrisoned and unused. Newti Fort, between Malwan and Vengurla belonged to the Bhonsle of Savantwadi. His subjects were referred to by seafarers who suffered from his depredations as either Bhonslees or Savants. His operations were on a ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

46. Photo 146/1(225)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(225)
Title:
Savantwadi Town, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The old fort in Savantwadi. The chief now lives a modern house in the same locality. When Col. Bevan with his Pioneers was making the new highway through this state to the ?Bam Ghaut he called upon his ruler, than a woman and asked her if she would like the road t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

47. Photo 146/1(229)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(229)
Title:
Riari Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Bastions of main gateway where most of the casualties occurred. In the morning after the first assault two British officers got themselves hoisted through one of the embrasures quite ready to surrender. Writing in 1826 Capt. Jervis, Bombay Engineers, said this was the only one between Bombay an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

48. Photo 146/1(230)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(230)
Title:
Riari [Redi] Fort, The Konkun Coast. The entrance to the fort at the end of the curved covert way. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Writing in 1826 Capt. Jervis, Bombay Engineers, said this was the only one between Bombay and Goa, deserving notice as a fortified post against European artillery and troops. It had been bombarded in 1717 by ships of the Bombay Marine, but marines could not be landed because of the heavy surf an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

49. Photo 146/1(232)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(232)
Title:
Riari [Redi] Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The low walls and bastions from the south. The citadel is high up in rear. This stronghold was assaulted by a force under Sir Wm. Grant Keir. The stormers were from H.Ms 89th Foot. They were drawn up on the seashore opposite the breach made by the artillery, and u...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

50. Photo 146/1(238)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(238)
Title:
Tiracol Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Never of much military strength and now believed to be a sub-divisional administrative or police post. On the north bank of Pernem creek, the boundary of the province of the Nova Conquista. Geographically the fort is a small enclave within what was formerly S...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item