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Lahaul

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.5.21

House near Keylong. Note the verandah.

+ Region

Ladakh

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Agriculture, Architecture, Landscape

+ Ref. ID

1.6.5

Hay in foreground, several large houses and mountains beyond.

+ Region

Ladakh

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Agriculture, Architecture, Customs

+ Ref. ID

1.6.7

Houses. Buddhist shrine on the left. Hay drying in yard. A layer of furze on the roof. High snowy mountains in background.

+ Region

Saraj

+ Year

1972

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.9.5

On the way up to Khanag from Taralla, detail of the door knockers. Penelope Betjeman admired them

+ Region

Manikaran & Kasol

+ Year

1971

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.20.22

Malana. This ‘dharamsala’ features in 19 C travellers’ photos and engravings. I think it burnt down soon after I was there.

+ Region

Manikaran & Kasol

+ Year

1971

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.20.23

Malana, temple store, dense use of timber bonding and arched and carved balconies, ibex horns on the wall. The building and the group of women and children in front look so once-upon-a -time (including their expressions) that its hard to believe that it was me who took this photo, in 1971, it could have been taken by someone in 1900.

+ Region

Manikaran & Kasol

+ Year

1971

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.20.24

Malana, temple store with arched and carved balconies, animal horns on the wall, group of 7 women and children in the foreground Dense use of timber bonding and arched and carved balconies, ibex horns on the wall. As for 1.20.23. The building and the group of women and children in front look so once-upon-a -time (including their expressions that its hard to believe that it was me who took this photo, in 1971, it could have been 1900.

+ Region

Saraj

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Agriculture, Architecture, Temple

+ Ref. ID

1.22.20

Shamsher Mahadev Temple, village and terraces. Chowai village.

+ Region

Saraj

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.24.18A

Kot village, arched balcony viewed between the buildings.

+ Region

Dunghri

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.25.10A

Manali village. Over view of slate roofs, note no other roofing materials. The houses are densely packed together. Saving agricultural land? And/or easy access between neighbours in deep snow winters?

+ Region

Dunghri

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture, Clothes

+ Ref. ID

1.25.3A

Manali Village. Young girls one in tweed ‘pattu’ and one in tweed dress, standing on paved courtyard, slate roofed buildings behind.

+ Region

Dunghri

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.25.4A

Manali village. Young girl in tweed dress. Note: Manali village is not Manali bazaar. These days Manali village often referred to as ‘Old Manali’.

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+ Region

Dunghri

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture, Craft, Wool

+ Ref. ID

1.26.13A

Manali village. People on timber balcony. A loom and some fleeces. Cattle below.

+ Region

Dunghri

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture, Clothes, Wool

+ Ref. ID

1.26.26

Manali village. Little girls in tweed ‘pattu’. Building behind timber ‘bonded’ construction, with stone.

+ Region

Dunghri

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture, Clothes

+ Ref. ID

1.26.34

Manali village. Two girls, both wearing tweed ‘pattu’. Timber balcony & slate roof behind.

+ Region

Simla

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.30.17

Vice Regal Lodge façade and garden. Monsoon mists.

+ Region

Simla

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.30.2

Vice Regal Lodge two servants at the entrance porch.

+ Region

Simla

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.30.27

Vice Regal Lodge front façade. It was monsoon season when we were there.

+ Region

Simla

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.30.5

The coat of arms of the UK with the lion and the unicorn, over the entrance to Vice Regal Lodge. It was completed in 1888 when Lorna Dufferin was Viceroy.

+ Region

Simla

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture, Work

+ Ref. ID

1.32.26

A street sweeper in front of Oberoi Clarkes Hotel, John and I stayed here to meet Mr Mahajan of the Tourist department on our way to our first trek.

+ Region

Simla

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.33.71

Sahib Singh’s shop on the mall from the inside.

+ Region

Simla

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.33.74

Sahib Singh’s shop on the mall from the outside.

+ Region

Kullu Valley

+ Year

1970

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

1.35.31

Near Katrain, village houses

+ Region

Saraj

+ Year

1978

+ Keyword

Architecture, Temple

+ Ref. ID

2.4.26

Chaini. The 2 temple towers stand on a promontory high above the village of Banjar. Dorze standing in the foreground. In those days you were allowed to climb up the rickety outdoor stair & then go inside.

+ Region

Saraj

+ Year

1978

+ Keyword

Architecture, Temple

+ Ref. ID

2.4.34

The two temple towers at Chaini, The 2 temple towers stand on a promontory high above the village of Banjar. A girl in foreground

+ Region

Kullu Valley

+ Year

1976

+ Keyword

Architecture, Temple

+ Ref. ID

2.10.16

Sanogi. Temple roof of timber. ‘Dharamsala’ roof of stone slab. Under a large ‘deodar’

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

2.19.34

View of Karsha village from below, built into the steep hillside.

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Architecture, Landscape

+ Ref. ID

2.19.36

Zanskar, Karsha, Chamba’s village. Traditional mud brick houses with furze on roofs. View cross the Padam plain to the Zankskar, or the Great Himalaya, range beyond.

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Architecture, Craft

+ Ref. ID

2.21.10

Karsha, Chamba’s village. Detail of mud brick house in foreground and furze on roof. materials. Other similar houses on the steep slope above, some very substantial.

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Architecture, Landscape

+ Ref. ID

2.21.2

Karsha, Chamba’s village. View South through the village and across the plains of Padam to the Great Himalayan range, or the Zanskar Range beyond

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Architecture, Landscape

+ Ref. ID

2.21.3

Karsha, Chamba’s village. View South through the village, chorten in foreground, and across the plains of Padam.

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Architecture, Craft, Wool

+ Ref. ID

2.21.5

Kasha village. A house entrance & baskets of dung/wood roots ? for fuel.

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Architecture, Craft

+ Ref. ID

2.21.7

Karsha village. Chamba’s house. Furze in foreground, for fuel and or for the roof ?

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+ Region

Lahaul

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

2.25.20A

Houses near Keylong, old style with built in verandas. Plentiful wood pile

+ Region

Lahaul

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

2.25.30A

Gondla tower. Remarkable building (still standing in poor repair 2023) the seat of the Thakur of Gondla

+ Region

Saraj

+ Year

1980

+ Keyword

Architecture, Work

+ Ref. ID

3.1.35

Manali village. Timber balconies with carving, veranda with corner views of it, and quantity of timber used in the bonding. Hay hanging from veranda. Wooden wash tub perched against floor, stack of timber for fuel.

+ Region

Dunghri

+ Year

1980

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

3.2.31A

Very sad last morning at Duff Dunbar, Boura Singh and Rahul.

+ Region

Saraj

+ Year

1979

+ Keyword

Architecture, Temple

+ Ref. ID

3.8.12

Kot temple store, carved door with door knockers

+ Region

Saraj

+ Year

1979

+ Keyword

Architecture, Clothes

+ Ref. ID

3.14.6A

A village between Khanag and Kot. Showing the paved courtyard and ‘kilta’ and ‘kerai’. A woman in Saraji clothes, grass drying on veranda behind.

+ Region

Saraj

+ Year

1979

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

3.14.7A

Kot Temple Store, carved balcony

+ Region

Saraj

+ Year

1979

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

3.15.4

A view down to a village, where a new house is being constructed in traditional style.

+ Region

Parasher

+ Year

1979

+ Keyword

Agriculture, Architecture

+ Ref. ID

3.18.4

Gujars near Parasher. In the foreground Gujars’ houses and their buffaloes. High mountains in the background.

+ Region

Prini

+ Year

1981

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

4.1.9

Vashist ground floor of a house and detail of veranda construction. Note quantity of timber in it, also stock of timber in background.

+ Region

Gaddis

+ Year

1982

+ Keyword

Architecture, Clothes

+ Ref. ID

4.7.10

Tyari. My hosts, handsome men posing with their hookahs on the veranda. They were telling me Gaddi legends & history.

+ Region

Gaddis

+ Year

1982

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

4.7.22

Nayagraon, Upper Ravi Valley. House being built detail of roof construction.

+ Region

Gaddis

+ Year

1982

+ Keyword

Architecture

+ Ref. ID

4.7.36

Bramour. Sheep and goats finding shade in the ‘chaurassi’.
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