[Group at the] IGP's Conference to consider the Draft Government of India Bill before it was presented to Parliament. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Sitters are named in an accompanying key as follows: '1. Samuel Thos. Hollins, IG/UP; 2. Col Cyril de Montfort Wellborne, IG/Burma; 3. John Hunter Adam, OBE, IG/NWFP; 4. Sir Chas. Banks Cunningham, Kt, CSI, IG/Madras; 5. Sir Horace Williamson, Kt, CIE, MB, Dir/IB; 6....
Clay models of thugs demonstrating their methods of strangulation. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Caption continues: 'Photograph of a painted clay group of Thugs exhibiting their methods of strangulation at Lucknow and showing a traveller being murdered. Taken by the courtesy of A.D. Compbell, Esq, of India Museum, S. Kensington'. Subjects = crime and criminals; m...
A Kutchery, or court house, during the trial of a Thug. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Caption continues: 'From a sketch made at Jabalpur by Mrs Fanny Parks in 1830, the year that the operations for the suppression of Thugee actually commenced, which accounts for the some-what startled expression of the Magistrate'. Subjects = courthouses; crime and cri...
Pir-jo-goth from the air. Photographer: Royal Air Force
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Genre: Landscape Photography Annotations down the side of the print read: 'Jial Shah murdered. Mariam M/O Ibrahim Kori murdered. Bachal Shah murdered'. Subjects = aerial views Location = Pakistan; Pir-jo-goth; Sindh