Genre: Architectural Photography Printed version from the slides used by Temple to illustrate a lecture on 'Developments in Buddhist Architecture'. See the list Titles of Slides accompanying this collection. Note on the mount reads: 'Sikra now most important part of pagoda'. Subjects = Burmes...
Photograph of a ruined gateway at Pandua. This photograph was taken by an unknown photographer in the 1870s and is part of the collection of Sir Richard Carnac Temple. The gateway was said to have been built to commemorate the saint Nur Qutb Alam, a local Muslim saint who died in 1415 and whose ...
Ruins of Nugger [Rajnagar], Beerbhum. Photographer: Unknown
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Photograph of the ruins of Rajnagar in Birbhum. This photograph of a ruined mosque was taken by an unknown photographer in the 1870s and forms part of the Temple Collection. Rajnagar was the capital of the Hindu and Pathan Rajas of Birbhum prior to and following the Muslim conquest in the 13th c...
Hindu temple, Hetimpur, Beerbhum. Photographer: Unknown
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Photograph of a Hindu temple situated in Hetimpur from the Temple collection of photographs; it was taken by an unknown photographer in the 1870s. This view shows a Hindu temple at Hetimpur which is a small town in the south-eastern part of Birbhum, West Bengal.
Hossainabad village, Beerbhum. Photographer: Unknown
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Photograph of Hossainabad village in Birhbhum. Taken by an unknown photographer in 1870, this print is part of the collection of Sir Richard Carnac Temple. This presents a general view taken in a village situated in the Birhbhum District of West Bengal.
Ruins of Nugger [Rajnagar], Beerbhum. Photographer: Unknown
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Photograph of the ruins of Nugger in Birbhum taken by an unknown photographer in the 1870s and forming part of the Temple Collection. Rajnagar was the capital of the Hindu and Pathan Rajas of Birbhum prior to and following the Muslim conquest in the 13th century. It was an important seat of the ...
Photograph of a river scene taken in Dhaka district in the 1870s by an unknown photographer. This view illustrates a scene with a temple on the banks of the Buriganga River at an unidentified location in the Dhaka region in Bangladesh.
