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SOAS Archives
An important British collection, which contains photographs by many masters of 19th century Raj photography, as well as an extensive oral archive or life during the Raj. Images are best seen by appointment in London, although a few hundred are available online.Read moreBasel Mission Image Archive
The Basel Mission archives contain historical photographs, written records, printed and hand-drawn maps and building plans. Missionary collections like this one include subjects and regions often inaccessible or passed over by other photographers.Read moreNational Archives of Pakistan
The official Pakistan archives includes all of Mohammed Ali Jinnah's papers and photo-albums, as well as other material relating to the Independence movement. It is also the only archive to have a complete collection in its original paper form of The Civil and Military Gazette, the Lahore paper that Rudyard Kipling once worked for.Read more
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The Alkazi Collection of Photography
The Alkazi Collection is the finest private collection of early photography from the Indian subcontinent. With over 85,000 images, it includes material from most of the great photographers and starting in the 1850s. The collection is the passion of a single India-based collector, Ebrahim Alkazi,Read moreCentre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge
This postcard from K.C. Mehra's Special Series II. published from Peshawar in the 1930s shows a Frontier Loosewala or "Raider" lying dead on a charpai.Read moreNational Army Museum
The National Army Museum in London has a vast collection of military materials, with good coverage of the areas the British Army was most active in the first part of the 20th century. This includes the North-West Frontier Province.Read moreWhat Are Collections?
Collections are physical repositories of images from photographs to engravings, lithographs and movies of the greater Raj for roughly a century, 1848-1947. Museums and libraries, archives and private collections.Read more
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s. One following evil courses; Fr. mauvais sujet; It. malandrino. Properly bad-ma'āsh, from P. bad, 'evil,' and Ar. ma'āsh, 'means of livelihood.'
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