Benares (inhabited place) -- Varanasi -- Vārānasi
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 208 Collections and/or Records:
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United Provinces Light Horse – camped at Benares to escort the Prince of Wales, 1905 - 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/36
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...
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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Very ornate gold temple roof, 1966
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/4/16
Scope and Contents
83 x 57 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.
Dates:
1966
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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View from Desasumay Ghat, 1908-01 - 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/586
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Showing the opposite and non-sacred side of the river.
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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View of the bathing ghats at Benares [Varanasi], showing buildings in the background, formerly princes' palaces but now hostels for pilgrims, 1966
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/4/35
Scope and Contents
83 x 57 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.
Dates:
1966
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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'Vishnu Pud' and other temples near the Burning Ghat, 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022D/32
Scope and Contents
296 x 242 mm. View looking W along the river bank with the spires of the temples at the Manikarnika Ghat in the foreground. Bourne no. 1170.
Dates:
1860 - 1869
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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[Waterfront at Benares], 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/10/83
Scope and Contents
135 x 201 mm.
Dates:
1932
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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Well at Benares, 1908-01 - 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/550
Scope and Contents
Well at Benares inside garden. My guide policeman said and insisted : 'this is well in which Warren Hastings hid himeself during the Mutiny. I have not yet found out what story he can have referred to and confused. In the garden within the wall were the quarters occupied in the autumn of 1781 by warren Hastings, First Governor General of Fort William in Bengal.' [? Fisher quoting inscription in garden].
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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Well of Knowledge Benares, 1902 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/35
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...
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).