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Posted on: 25 December 2011
A. R. Pollock's camp under the Kaimur hills (U.P.) - December 1868
Water-colour painting of a camp under the Kaimur hills (Uttar Pradesh) by Stanley Leighton (1837-1901), December 1868. Inscribed on the mount in pencil is: 'Mr A.R. Pollock's camp, under the Kaimoor hills, Mirzapore.' A. R. Pollock was Collector of Mirzapur, and Leighton accompanied him on a Christmas shoot.
Source : British Library
Can some one correct my Geography. Just anyone...Kaymore Hills are not in UP it is in MP. and there is a Mirzapore which is by Davendranagar and thes berren slate hills are in That Kaymore Hills. UP Mirzpur is very green and no hills. Please explain. I am geography bee and freak.
UP perhaps stands for united provinces here rather than Uttar Pradesh of post-independence India.
the United Provinces comprised of present day Bihar /UP and part of MP.the rest of MP came under the Central Provinces.
Umm RBSI: as a aside, how does this painting fit in the theme of the day?
..."Inscribed on the mount in pencil is: 'Mr A.R. Pollock's camp, under the Kaimoor hills, Mirzapore.' A. R. Pollock was Collector of Mirzapur, and Leighton accompanied him on a 'Christmas' shoot."
Oh txs RBSI, I thought that there was more to it. :-)
Kaimur hills falls on the border of uttar pradesh & madhya pradesh running along the a stretch of River Son.. they a shallow plateau ish hills lovely for black bucks..