Old Kashmir Photos

1980 A meat shop and "Haakh" (collard greens) seller in front, Srinagar Kashmir.

Some 150 yrs later Shalimar canal Srinagar Kashmir.
1860s Shalimar canal, Srinagar Kashmir. Once upon a time people used to cross this canal in boats to reach Shalimar garden, and changing times changed this canal into a cesspool. It was connecting Dal lake up to the gates of Shalimar garden, its remnants still exist, In olden times there was no Boulevard road or any other road in front of the Shalimar garden and only approach to this garden was this canal.

1943 Gulmarg Kashmir.
1943 British military personnel, on ponies, with local guides and porters at Gulmarg Mountain in Kashmir. From the The Memoirs of Major General David Horsfield.

1982 Children in a village in Kashmir.
Beautiful village with charming look reiterating the traditional use of mortar, at background, for pounding grains in primitive era .
The innocence is reflected in photo which has now gone. It is a sad present and a lovely past. We who are even in 30's or plus may always remember but for next generation everything is gone !

1949 A Ghat of river Jehlum.
Seems to be near present day Zero bridge.

1920s Milkmen bound for the Srinagar city.