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Title: Fakirs, Hugli-Chuchura, India, ca.1918
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1918
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: For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
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Description: ““Fakirs resting on the roadside. Views at Chinsurah [Hugli-Chuchura].” View of four men seated on the ground. Fakirs originally referred to Sufi Muslim ascetics or mystics who lived off alms. Eventually the term came to refer to mystics or ascetics of any religion or beggars more generally. ❧ Views of Rajputana by Lala Deen Diyal.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 9.4 x 7.4 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-75650135-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79241
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75650135-1.jpg
Subject: Beggars
Group portraits
Mystics
Time Period: circa 1918
Place: Asia
Hugli
India
West Bengal
Source: Acc.7548/F/12 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75650133 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
Views of Rajputana by Lala Deen Diyal, Indore
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