Kashmir Through Old Photographs

A collection of old photographs showing everyday activities, markets, waterways, and community scenes in Srinagar from the 1880s to the 1980s. The pictures include a hand-coloured royal state barge (Parendh) on the Apple Tree Canal rowed by boatmen in the 1880s; a flower seller in a small boat with baskets on Nigeen Lake in the 1960s; children holding flowers in a rural setting in 1976; Kashmiri women conversing at a roadside market stall in Dalgate in 1970; bustling street scenes with shops, pedestrians, and bicycles in the 1970s; narrow market lanes filled with shopkeepers and children in 1980; daily life at Yarbal on the Jhelum River with women and children on stone steps in 1982; oarsmen from Tyndale-Biscoe School rowing on the Jhelum in the early 20th century; women grinding grain beside a canal around 1900; and the Fourth Bridge over the Jhelum with Hari Parbat in the background in the early 20th century. This colour photograph from the 1960s shows a flower seller navigating a ...

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 showing everyday street life, waterways, and public spaces in Kashmir from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s. The pictures include Hari Singh High Street in Srinagar in 1983 with wooden shops and light pedestrian traffic; Ali Kadal wooden bridge over the Jhelum River in late nineteenth-century Srinagar with dense riverbank buildings; people washing clothes along Dal Lake stone steps in 1977; a traditional donga boat carrying passengers on calm waters in the early twentieth century; Mercedes tour buses parked at Tangmarg en route to Gulmarg in the 1960s with a government cafeteria nearby; and Nishat Garden along Dal Lake in the late nineteenth century with terraced steps reaching the water and no road access. Simple views of old Kashmir. A street view of Hari Singh High Street in Srinagar photographed in 1983, showing traditional wooden commercial buildings, small shops, and everyday pedestrian activity. The road appears lightly trafficked, wit...