British Indian military and administrative photo archive, circa 1890s to 1945, documenting the personnel, training establishments, staff branches, and social hierarchies through which imperial authority operated in India. The strongest images record an Army Headquarters Advanced Arabic Class at Kasauli in 1940 and Section 26 of the Master General of.....

Bombay red light district photographs of women seated in brothel doorways, gathered in interior rooms, and receiving male visitors, circa 1958, recording the sex trade as it operated in post independence India under the combined pressures of urban poverty, migration, and state regulation. Drawn from a merchant marine album and.....

Missionary education and colonial album depicting India circa 1912, recording Western presence in a British ruled colony through girls’ schooling, domestic compounds, rural labor, and major sites of imperial tourism. One of the first images show a group of Indian girls posed with three Western women standing behind them, likely.....

British frontier military photo archive documenting the garrison system of the North West Frontier during the final years of the First World War, 1917 to 1918, showing how the British Indian Army organized training, logistics, aviation, medical services, and daily military life across what is now Pakistan. Centered on Risalpur.....

India glass lantern slide archive documenting class hierarchy dichotomy in British India, with scenes of village labor, bazaar exchange, railway movement, industrialization, Sikhs, and colonial cavalry, circa 1900-20. Images clearly depict the class divid and Cast system; villagers and laborers are shown seated on bare ground in carpentry work, men.....

South Asia photo album recording Darjeeling, Nepal, Calcutta, and Agra in the 1960s, in a post Independence view of how religious life, urban crowding, tourism, and Himalayan community identity were being documented by a foreign traveler across India and Nepal. The album showcases the various landscapes of cultural and religious.....

Southern India photo album documenting an international Christian missionary medical group around Vellore, Karigiri, Katpadi, and Kanchipuram in 1961, many photographs captioned and identify individuals. The album showcases how missionary labor operated after the end of British rule through hospitals, training schools, religious ceremony, and organized visits into village and.....

Puttalam labor correspondence dated October 1922 records coercion within British Ceylon’s colonial coolie labor system, where maistries and “coolie masters” controlled the recruitment and movement of South Indian migrant workers. One letter states that “your monthly Coolie Masteries” came to No. 44, 5th Street “with stick,” abused the writers, and.....

British Indian railway and military administrative staff photo archive, circa 1930s to 1943, documenting the trained Indian clerical, instructional, stores, and supervisory personnel who operated institutions central to colonial transportation and wartime logistics. The principal photograph depicts the instructional and clerical staff of the Railway Training School at Bina, the.....

Gregson, Anita. A.P. Mission City School archive, 1941–1942, documenting girls’ education, missionary activity, and community life in Ambala, Punjab during World War II. This material records daily instruction, social interaction, and local conditions within a mission-run school for girls, alongside written correspondence and institutional reporting that situate the school within.....

Government of India, An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages, 1929, documents the legal system created to restrict child marriage in British India and supports research into women’s rights, colonial law, childhood, and social reform in South Asia. The Act, commonly known as the Sarda Act after reformer.....

Dutt, G.S., A Woman of India: Being the Life of Saroj Nalini, Founder of the Women’s Institute Movement in India, signed copy dated 1937, preserves the life and reform work of Saroj Nalini Dutt within the history of women’s education, rural self-help, and social welfare in Bengal. Saroj Nalini Dutt.....

This rare pamphlet "Act No. XIX of 1929 Passed by the Indian Legislature…An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages" was a critical step in protecting girls. At the time that this description was written, there are no copies of this work in American institutions and OCLC search results.....