cover image: Dadu Panths, Jaipur, India, ca.1901

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Dadu Panths, Jaipur, India, ca.1901

"There are over 10,000 of these soldier monks in the Jaipur state. They are followers of Dadu [Dayal] a Reformer of Hinduism, who was born 1545 A.D. He died at the age of 60 and left a Bani (his words) of 20,000 lines and 150 initiated disciples. His birth place was Ahmedabad and he died in Jaipur state at a village called [?] 50 miles from the Capital." Group portrait of soldiers with swords and shields standing together. ❧ United Free Church of Scotland photographs from the Rajputana mission.
indigenous peoples soldiers religious groups monks
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79105
Date published
circa 1901
Dates
circa 1901
Pages
Photographic prints, 19.9 x 14.1 cm.
Place Discussed
Asia India Jaipur Rājasthān
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
India
Reference
impa-a-nls-75648392-1.tif
Rights
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. manuscripts@nls.uk
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/8dc8f5955d09f56a7c7cef9f586a874f

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