British Raj

This is another board related to research for my fourth novel, THE BLUE BENCH.
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Family History Research Timeline: Migration
What a great hat and neckline - note the position to forehead. Note high waist on Indian man's wraps.
Stock Footage and Imagery
Ayah with children. An Indian ayah (nursemaid) poses beside her British charges, a young girl and a baby, in the garden of a colonial residence. Two toy dolls are propped up for the camera in the foreground. Calcutta (Kolkata), India, October 1932. Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Southern Asia, Asia. - stock photo
‘Our hero is a sportsman’: British domestic interiors in 19th century India
From the Untold Lives blog post 'British Interiors in 19th Century India'. Image: ‘The Breakfast’, William Tayler, Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians and Anglo-Indians (1842).
Dressing the Indian woman through history
Photograph of a group posed in front of the Government Normal School at Bombay, in Maharashtra from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections
1880s
"Miss M. W. Leitch and hindoo girls"; antique photograph; Miss Mary Leitch was co-author of "Seven Years in Ceylon" by Mary and Margaret Leitch. Published by the American Tract Society, 1890.
The Captives of our Bow and Spear
British officer and family on arrival in India
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Princess Sophia Duleep Singh's world - History's HEROES from E2BN