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Title
High caste women, Harkua, India, ca. 1915
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1910/1920
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
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The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
Black and white lantern slide showing a group of women of a high caste in Harkua village in the Gopalganj district of Bihar, India. Three women stand and two crouch on the ground. All wear saris and conspicuous jewellery. The caste system in India was a method of dividing up Hindu society according to role. If these women are high caste, they may be members of the Brahmin group, the priest or scholar class. The caption to the slide reads: "High caste women in zenana at Harkua village in Gopalganj." A zenana (literally meaning "pertaining to women") was the part of the household reserved for women in Muslim south Asian households. These zenanas would be visited by the wives of missionaries as part of mission work. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.
Format
lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
lantern slides
photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-37.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78253
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-37.jpg
Subject
Indigenous peoples
Ethnic groups
Women
Hinduism
Castes and tribes of India
Group portraits
Time Period
1910/1920
Place
Asia
Bihar
Harkua
India
populated places
Source
CSCNWW33/OS14/37 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Regions Beyond Missionary Union. India captioned lantern slides (CSCNWW33/OS14)

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