"Hindoo doing penance by measuring the ground with his body going to the Ganges." Scene of a pilgrim lying on the ground with people standing nearby. This is probably at Purulia which was situated in the Santalia mission field in the Manbhoom district. The station at Purulia was established by the Gossner Mission Society of Berlin. This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79944
- Date published
- circa 1900
- Dates
- circa 1900
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 10 x 7.8 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Asia India Puruliya West Bengal
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-75657894-1.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/2dc7961dc09df537e5dd91803abf55b2
