India

Raj photography collections in India.

The Alkazi Collection of Photography

Bourne 1863
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 more

City Palace Museum

Udaipur City
The City Palace Museum has a collection of almost 18,000 images from the 19th through early 20th centuries from the personal collection of Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur.Read more

Aditya Arya Archive

Aditya Arya Archive
The Aditya Arya Archive is based on the almost forgotten photographs of the important early Independence movement photographer Kulwant Roy (1914-1984). Founded by his nephew, a professional photographer, the archive is actively pursuing the restoration of other collections on the verge of being lost to history.Read more

What Are Collections?

Sindhi Artisans, 1890s

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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