India (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 6261 Collections and/or Records:
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Bombay : the arrival ceremony, 1911-11 - 1911-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/83
Scope and Contents
King George replying to the welcoming address by Sir Pherozeshah Mehta, President of the Bombay Municipal Corporation.
Dates:
1911-11 - 1911-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bombay Walkeshwar Tank 15051, 1850 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/18
Scope and Contents
246 x 196 mm. View looking across the tank (one of the few remaining in modern Bombay) towards the houses and temple spires and domes on the farther side. The tank (also known as the Banganga Tank) is situated on Malabar Hill.
Dates:
1850 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bombay Walkeshwar Temples 15052, 1850 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/19
Scope and Contents
194 x 246 mm. View looking across the tank towards the dwellings on the farther side, with the temple beyond. Dedicated to Walkeshwar, the Sand Lord, this temple was destroyed by either Muhammadans or the Portuguese and this building, built of stone and surmounted by a tall carved dome, was erected c 1715 by Rama Kamat, a member of the Gaud Sarasvat or Shenvi community. A flourishing Brahmin community grouped itself in the area and, as protected against the brigands for whom Malabar Hill was...
Dates:
1850 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Borneo in the sixties: letters from Sarawak
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 337
Scope and Contents
Letters written by Elizabeth O'Kelly in Borneo and photographs from her time on the island. The document is a photocopy of the original 1965 typescript. There are 27 letters, written from Kuching and Tarat, dating from 29 March 1962 to 16 February 1965. They are concerned principally with the background to the establishment of the Sarawak Federation of Women's Institutes, but also cover people and places of Borneo, the advent of Independence, the situation in Indonesia, the rebellion in...
Dates:
2004
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, 1900 - 1904
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC India/146
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Miscellaneous monochrome postcards of India. The majority of the photographers and publishers are unknown.
Dates:
1900 - 1904
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Botanical Gardens, Calcutta
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/252
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Boy at Shali], 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/10/50
Scope and Contents
52 x 72 mm.
Dates:
1931
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Boy Wilks, 1906 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3026A/3
Scope and Contents
90 x 137 mm. Portrait of a young officer of the 13th Hussars. A caption records that he died in India in 1910.
Dates:
1906 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Boys Government High School, Delhi, 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/713
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). 5th High Class. The master is lecturing on Nelsons blind eye. (Fisher).
Dates:
1908-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Boys Government High School, Delhi, 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/714
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). 5th High Class. The master is lecturing on Nelsons blind eye. (Fisher).
Dates:
1908-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Boys learning floriculture, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Y/10
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Contains loose photographs (mounted on loose cards), 200 x 150 mm (unless otherwise stated) by K.B. Padhye. The collection sustained flood damage in 1980, the second such fate to befall this collection. Sixteen of the photographs were transferred from an album damaged by flooding in December 1974. Mounts and albums bore the name of K.B. Phadye, 'Photographic artist', Aurangabad. Mr John Wright and his colleagues at the Tropical Products Institute Library assisted in linking photographs...
Dates:
1908
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Brahmin Clerk and Mussulman 15171, 1850 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/138
Scope and Contents
250 x 200 mm.
Dates:
1850 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Brahmin Ladies of the Dakkan 15149, 1850 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A/116
Scope and Contents
200 x 250 mm.
Dates:
1850 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Brahmin women close to the top of the Rock, 1907-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/218
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Trichinopoly, looking northwards towards Surangam. Womens dress red and saffron. (Fisher).
Dates:
1907-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Brahmins (Pundits), 1862
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022B/102
Scope and Contents
231 x 177 mm.
Dates:
1862
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views of India
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Bramley and the Honble and Revd, 1905 - 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/47
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints, of an approximate size of 80 x 100 mm, mounted on card, six to a page, in a padded black leather album inscribed on the cover India 1905-06 from C.C. and 'Photographs taken by Sir Charles Cust Bt. 1905-06' is written on the fly leaf in Queen Marys hand. Sir Charles Cust took this collection of amateur photographs while accompanying the Royal Party. Most of the photographs have elegant hand-written captiions, but these are not always very explicit - some portraying...
Dates:
1905 - 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Brass Bazaar, Benares, 1908-01 - 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/554
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 512-669 (originally there were 162). Added numbers are: 605A, 598A, 719A-B, 529A (refers to a painting); spoiled: 515, 555-559, 650; not used: 517, 530, 535, 569, 591, 625, 639, 649, 653 and 664; missing: 558. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 605A follows 528; 554 follows 598; 719A-B follow 669. Subjects covered in the album are: India: Calcutta, Botanical Gardens;...
Dates:
1908-01 - 1908-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Breach in the outwork of Deeg [i. e. Dig] Fort, 1880 - 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022K/17
Scope and Contents
272 x 207 mm. View looking along a path towards a breach in the fortress walls. Numbered '1921'.
Dates:
1880 - 1885
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Breaking back through line of beaters. (Note the dust rising)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 29/8
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A bound volume with padded covers containing photogravure reproductions of photographs by Barton Son and Company. There is a printed introduction (pages 2-10) describing the kheddah operations by M. Mutannah, Conservator of Forests, Mysore. Unless otherwise stated, the reproductions are 285 x 245 mm.; these appear on right-hand pages, one to a page
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Brian Witchalls helping to repair refrigeration cabinet, 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/1/134
Scope and Contents
79 x 80 mm. glossy print. Christian Medical College Hospital.
Dates:
1969
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bridge below Ging, Darjeeling, 1860 - 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/5
Scope and Contents
265 x 212 mm. View looking up the river towards the wooden bridge. This is possibly the photograph by Samuel Bourne entitled ‘Darjeeling, picturesque bridge over the Rungnoo below Ging’ (number 1900 in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue).
Dates:
1860 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bridge below Kursiong on the Mahamuddy, 1860 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022S/9
Scope and Contents
225 x 283 mm. View looking upriver, with massive rocks in the foreground, a cane bridge beyond and forest in the background. Kursiong is eleven miles south of Darjeeling. Photographer unknown, possibly R. Phillips.
Dates:
1860 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Bridge in Simla Hills], 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/10/66
Scope and Contents
76 x 51 mm. A view from a bridge.
Dates:
1931
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bridge on Sind River, 1902 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Q/84
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.
Dates:
1902 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bridge on the Marqual Canal, 1864
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/8
Scope and Contents
296 x 239 mm. Probably by Bourne, no. 815. View looking along the canal towards the bridge, a stone construction with a low wooden house running along its length. The banks of the canal are lined with buildings of wood and stone and Kashmiri boats can be seen on the water in the background, ‘The city, especially that portion of it on the right bank of the river, is intersected by narrow canals, the purpose of which is to afford a convenient mode of transit for the cucumbers, singaras,...
Dates:
1864
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).