“Hindu Girls’ School, Wazirabad”, “Panjab, India”. Group portrait of Young indigenous girls and some of their teachers. Often Hindu converts to Christianity were from the lower castes and impoverished. The girls’ school was run by the Church of Scotland Women’s Association for Foreign Missions and supervised by Isabella Plumb (1861-1944) The mission in Wazirabad was established with the arrival of Mohammed Ismail (-1873) who took over the government school in 1863. ❧ The town of Wazirabad was founded in 1636 by Shah Jahan (1592-1658) on the banks of the Chenab River and is 45 Kilometres west of Sialkot .
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78850
- Date published
- circa 1900
- Dates
- circa 1900
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 16.5 x 12 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Asia Pakistan Punjab Wazirabad
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Pakistan
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-75647127-1.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/3304660c74cbef5e737a254cfe852f39
