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Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society has a long connection with expeditions across the globe and in India. The learned society, a professional body for geography and geographers, was established in 1830 to advances geographical science. Its online library has nearly 1500 India related images from the 19th and 20th centuries.Read moreImperial War Museum
Wireless operators of C Set Unit using First World War equipment for inter-Brigade communications, Peshawar District Signals, Khyber Pass in 1939.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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boxwallah
s. Hybrid H. Bakas- (i.e. box) wālā. A native itinerant pedlar, or packman, as he would be called in Scotland by an analogous term. The Boxwālā sells cutlery, cheap nick-nacks, and small wares of all kinds, chiefly European.