Full-length portrait of three Paharia women in the modern-day state of
Jammu and Kashmir, taken by an unknown photographer in the 1890s. The
text accompanying a similar image of Paharis in John Forbes Watson's
'The People of India' (1869) states,"The Paharis of Bhaugulpoor are a
race, inhabiting the hilly and jungly country (the name signifies
hillman) of that large territory...They are hunters rather than
cultivators. They are largely employed as coolies (or luggage bearers)
by persons travelling between the hill and plain country."
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