cover image: Riverside Mela, India, ca. 1930

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Riverside Mela, India, ca. 1930

Tinted lantern slide showing a large group of people at a riverside mela (meaning "gathering" or "festival.") Stallholders sell their wares from large baskets in the foreground. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.
customs and traditions festivals marketplaces group portraits

Authors

Unknown

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Contributor
Newton & Co., 43 Museum Street, London
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78332
Date published
1925/1935
Dates
1925/1935
Format
Lantern slides Photographs
Pages
lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
Place Discussed
Asia Bihar India commercial sites
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
India
Reference
IMP-CSCNWW33-OS16-40.tif
Rights
Centre for the Study of World Christianity Contact the repository for details. The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/7fe302d827e9ac6e6eeb20e4854c7b11

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