Urban Daily Life & Shared Spaces in Old Kashmir Photographs
A collection of old photographs showing everyday activities and public places in Srinagar and rural Kashmir from around 1900 to the 1960s. The pictures include the Nala Mar canal passing under a stone bridge near Saraf Kadal around 1900; the Mission Hospital at Drugjan near Dalgate around 1910 with its European-style buildings and mountain backdrop; Kashmiri Pandit women washing utensils at a village spring water point in South Kashmir in the late 1950s; busy movement on Amira Kadal bridge in the 1960s with pedestrians, tongas, handcarts, and bicycles; workers inside the Srinagar silk factory operating looms and reeling equipment in 1904; and girls during an outdoor roll call at the CMS Girls School in Fateh Kadal in the 1920s. Simple views of old Kashmir. This rare photograph from around 1900 shows the Nala Mar canal passing beneath a stone bridge near Saraf Kadal in Srinagar, capturing an important element of the city’s historic water management system. Nala Mar once served as a ...