Kashmir Through Old Photographs

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 ...