cover image: Sir Hari Singh, Jammu, India, ca.1940

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Sir Hari Singh, Jammu, India, ca.1940

Portrait photograph of Maharaja Hari Singh (1895-1961), the last ruling Maharaja of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India. 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.
heads of state portraits hari singh, maharaja, 1895-1961

Authors

Unknown

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m69238
Date published
circa 1940
Dates
circa 1940
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-m69238 [Legacy record ID]; imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS10-014.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/e665eda1bc16ea810986a5874399374c

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