Portrait photograph of General Rajah Sir Amar Singh (1964-1909), father of Maharaja Hari Singh (1895-1961) the last ruling Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. He is dressed in full military dress. This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Jammu City, which is also known as the "City of Temples". A mission station occupied by Church of Scotland missionaries was founded here in the late 19th/early 20th century. Jammu is also one of the three administrative divisions within Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state in India.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m69299
- Date published
- circa 1900
- Dates
- circa 1900
- Format
- Lantern slides
- Pages
- 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Asia India Jammu and Kashmir
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- impa-m69299 [Legacy record ID]; imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS10-031.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/e63704c1076d00533c859375d05059e2
