PEOPLE OF INDIA

860's* (BL)

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*Group of Rajput agriculturalists (?); a photo by Eugene Clutterbuck Impey, early 1860's

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*Rajput men playing the game of Puchesee; a photo by Eugene Clutterbuck Impey, early 1860's

*"Oomuts of Nursinghur, Rajpoot tribe, Central India"; from  'The People of India', published from 1868 to the early 1870's by WH Allen, for the India Office
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"Peasants from the Doab," by Emile Bayard, from 'Le Tour du Monde', 1873;

Peasants from Sind" by Gilbert, 1868

"Rajpoots," a wood engraving, 1878

The Rajputs always had to coexist with the Jats: "Zemindars and Jat Peasants" (Malwa) by A. de Neuville, from 'Le Tour du Monde', 1873; compare 

View of Rajputs with their weapons in Udaipur" (1928)

A traditional container for formal letters that were to be delivered by a special herald or messenge

 'India and its Native Princes' by Louis Rousselet, 1878*