Kashmir Through Old Photographs

A collection of old photographs showing everyday moments in Kashmir during the twentieth century. The pictures include young girls playing the traditional game ghar ghar in the 1960s using simple objects in rural and semi-urban areas; a typical Srinagar street scene in the 1970s with a small roadside setup and wooden furniture for informal commerce; Jamia Masjid in Srinagar viewed from the southwest in 1906 with surrounding residential buildings and open ground; students in the playground at Burn Hall School in Srinagar in May 1970; the Srinagar Club at Bund along the Jhelum River during heavy winter snowfall in 1911; and shops with street activity in the commercial area of Dal Gate in Srinagar in 1980. Simple views of old Kashmir. This color photograph from the 1960s captures young Kashmiri girls engaged in the traditional childhood game known locally as ghar ghar, a form of imaginative role play reflecting domestic life. Played using simple objects found in nature or around the h...

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...