Traditional Portraits & Rural Life in Old Kashmir Photographs
A collection of old photographs showing everyday people, shared spaces, and routines in Kashmir from the early 1900s to the mid-twentieth century. The pictures include a hand-tinted postcard portrait of a Kashmiri woman in traditional attire with silver earrings from the late 1940s; Mohammad Subhan Hajam, a social reformer from the early 1900s; devotees gathered at the Tula Mula shrine around a natural spring in Ganderbal in the early 1900s; Prof Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Hajni, a prominent Kashmiri scholar and poet; a large gathering on Zaina Kadal bridge in Srinagar in 1911 as a social hub; a farmer ploughing fields with oxen in rural Kashmir around 1920; and pony wallahs leading horses on a mountain road in Gulmarg during the 1940s. Simple views of old Kashmir. This mid twentieth century hand-tinted postcard presents a portrait of a Kashmiri woman dressed in traditional attire, reflecting popular visual representations of Kashmir from the late 1940s and early 1950s. The original photog...