Kashmir Through Old Photographs

A collection of old photographs showing everyday work and rural life in Kashmir during the twentieth century. The pictures include a Srinagar street market in 1980 with a traditional meat shop displaying hanging cuts and a vegetable seller carrying baskets; comparative views of the Shalimar canal from the nineteenth century (tree-lined for boat travel) to modern times (with reduced flow and development); British military personnel on ponies in Gulmarg in 1943 with local guides and porters; children in a rural village in 1982 amid traditional structures, livestock, and tools like a stone mortar; a ghat along the River Jhelum near Zero Bridge in 1949 with moored boats and houseboats; and milk carriers balancing vessels on their heads while walking to Srinagar from villages in the 1920s. Simple views of old Kashmir. This color photograph from 1980 captures a street-level market scene in Srinagar, showing a traditional meat shop with cuts of meat hanging at the storefront while a veget...

A collection of old photographs and a watercolor showing everyday life related to education, literature, and urban development in Kashmir from the 1880s to the 1960s. The pictures include girls at the CMS Mission School in Fateh Kadal, Srinagar during the 1920s seated on balconies of a traditional wooden building; a quiet early view of the Gulmarg bazaar area with unpaved roads and simple wooden structures among pine forests; women carrying baskets of traditional earthenware utensils on their heads along a rural path in the 1960s; a spacious M A Road near the Golf Club in Srinagar in the 1940s with minimal traffic and Shankaracharya Hill in the background; an 1880s watercolor of the Nala Mar canal in Srinagar with calm waters and surrounding buildings; and a man reading a book in one of Srinagar’s Mughal gardens in 1948. Simple views of old Kashmir. This photograph from the 1920s shows the CMS Girls Mission School at Fateh Kadal in Srinagar during its early years of operation. Know...