Rural Markets & Village Routines in Old Kashmir 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...