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Photo 964/1(24)
- Record Id:
- 040-003233180
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003233156
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026867737.0x000ed0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 964/1(24)
- Title:
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Khojas [Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Group of two men, a youth and a child, posed against a photomontaged background of a view of Bombay. 'The Khojahs of the West of India are converts to the Shia form of the Muhammedan faith from the Hindu natives of Gujarat, Kathiawar, and Kutch, made principally within th elast three centuries...The central figure in our group is Nansi Parpia ('Old Nancy', as he is called at times), of shopkeeping celebrity in Bombay, whose kind, accommodating disposition is known to many of our British youths in the commencement of their Indian Career. His companion in the honours of the chair is the founder of one of the Khojah firms recently established in Bombay. In the elder of the two youths represented in our picture we have an excellent type of 'Young Bombay'. Every article of his dress bears unmistakable evidence of the anxiety of his class to assimilate the Oriental to the English costume.'
Subjects = ethnic groups; Johnson, 'The oriental races and tribes...' (vol 1, 1863); Khojas; photomontage
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003233156
040-003233180 - Is part of:
- Photo 964/1 : William Johnson, 'The Oriental Races and Tribes, Residents and Visitors of Bombay. A Series of Photographs, with…
Photo 964/1(24) : Khojas [Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William - Hierarchy:
- 032-003233156[0024]/040-003233180
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 964/1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1850
- End Date:
- 1859
- Date Range:
- 1850s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Johnson, William, fl 1850-1869 (Photographer)