RBSI - Full-length seated portrait of a Shawak Bania, Bombay - 1867 Photograph of a Shawak trader or merchant, taken by Hurrichund Chintamon in the 1860s. A print of this image was shown at the Paris Exhibi

Posted on: 4 December 2011

Full-length seated portrait of a Shawak Bania, Bombay - 1867

Photograph of a Shawak trader or merchant, taken by Hurrichund Chintamon in the 1860s. A print of this image was shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. This photograph is from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections; one of a series of ethnographical photographs commissioned by the Government of India in the late 19th century. These photographs were part of a survey to gather information about the people and monuments of India. Material was submitted by both professional and amateur photographers.

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Many such photos have no name of the person photographed. Only their caste or region mentioned. We also reproduce them with no comments. Someone who sat and posed like this would have had a name. When you photograph someone from a colony you have occupied and later ruled, people lose their names. Nameless people!