Kashmir Through Old Photographs

A collection of old photographs showing everyday life in Srinagar and around Dal Lake, mostly from the 1980s. The pictures include Srinagar streets with vendors and tangas, children playing in neighbourhoods, women on houseboats and shikaras, people watching TV through a window, and lakeside community scenes. Some earlier images from 1890s–1930s are also included: artisans decorating papier-mâché, families spinning thread, Jhelum River ghats, and traditional Kashmiri women. Simple glimpses of daily life in old Kashmir. A busy street scene in Srinagar photographed during the 1980s, showing pedestrians, local vendors, and a horse-drawn tanga operating alongside everyday market activity. The street reflects a period when traditional transport, walking, and small-scale commerce shaped urban movement more than motor vehicles. Shops line the narrow road, goods are sold at street level, and people of different ages share the same public space. Such streets functioned as both commercial cente...

A collection of old photographs showing everyday work and social moments in Kashmir from the early 1900s to the 1950s. The pictures include labourers in 1948 coordinating to lift a large stone block using manual strength and simple tools; a communal gathering at Hazratbal in the early 1900s with men, women, and children seated together in traditional attire; women and children watching from a latticed wooden window in a residential home during the 1950s; a coloured postcard panoramic view of M A Road in Srinagar from the early 1900s showing open fields, orchards, and early buildings; houseboats moored along the Jhelum River at Baramulla in 1927 with people and luggage during travel; and agricultural workers manually harvesting and stacking grain bundles in rural fields during the 1950s harud season. Simple views of old Kashmir. This 1948 photograph documents a group of Kashmiri labourers working together to lift a massive stone block using only human strength and simple tools. The ...