Miscellaneous material on the Buckingham and Collins families, including some correspondence, and a synopsis of the career of Sir James Buckingham (1843-1912), tea planter and Secretary to the Indian Tea Association.
Notes and other papers on the Rafai Fakirs, a Muslim sect in Hyderabad and their ceremonies, and related subjects such as fire walking; with photographs. Dated as: 1926-28; 1936
"Indian Fakirs" by J. H. Hunt (later Baron Hunt of Fawley), a paper read to the Osler Club, May 11 1934 and reprinted from the St Bartholemew's Hospital Journal Oct-Dec 1934. Copies of Hunt's photographs, used to illustrate this paper, can be found at Mss Eur F222/16-18
Photographs of the self mutilation ceremonies of the Rafai Fakirs, and of a fire walking ceremony. Photographer: Edmund Henderson Hunt
Scope & Content:
Collection of 152 loose prints illustrating the self-mutilation ceremonies of the Rafai Fakirs, a Muslim sect in Hyderabad State. The collection contains multiple copies of 24 different subjects, plus three indistinct snapshots of a fire-walking ceremony (taken at night, hence under-exposed and ...