Tinted lantern slide showing a crowd of men and women at a fair (or "mela") in the village of Thawe, in Gopalganj, Bihar, India. Durga Temple at Thawe is a major Hindu pilgrimage site, and a month long mela is organised there each year. The original caption to the slide reads: "Thawe Fair - Photo by A.L.B." The photograph was taken by Alexander Banks, one of the first missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union to enter Bihar in 1899, along with George Hicks. 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.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- Contributor
- Gardner & Co Opticians, Glasgow
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78263
- Date published
- 1900/1910
- Dates
- 1900/1910
- Format
- Lantern slides Photographs
- Pages
- lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
- Place Discussed
- Asia Bihar Gopalganj India populated places
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-47.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/a587c8dcf373284f6d3fba197367b650
