Image / Hindus celebrating festival, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India, ca. 1910

View source image on contributor's website.

Get Citation

Have a question about this item?

Contact Owner

Item information. View source record on contributor's website.

Title: Hindus celebrating festival, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India, ca. 1910
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1910
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: Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Council for World Missions
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description: "2. Hindu festival in connection with the worship of Khali. The people having smeared themselves with mud proceed to the temple to do puja, fifty to sixty thousamd people attend this festival every year. Maliyampollium, Erode". One of 5 images mounted on card relating to the celebration of a Hindu festival, possibly Diwali.
One of a number of prints captioned and pasted onto numbered boards, used by the London Missionary Society for reference and publications.
Type: image
Format: photographs
printing-out paper, 7.2 x 10.2 cm.
Identifier: impa-m1414 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-09-10-010-012-2
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m1414
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-09-10-010-012-2.jpg
Subject: London Missionary Society
Religious practice
Group portraits
Time Period: circa 1910
Place: Erode
India
Madras
Source: SOAS/CWM/LMS/IN/PHOTO/03/010/012/2 [File]
Relation: Council for World Mission/London Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

About the collections in Calisphere

Learn more about the collections in Calisphere. View our statement on digital primary resources.

Copyright, permissions, and use

If you're wondering about permissions and what you can do with this item, a good starting point is the "rights information" on this page. See our terms of use for more tips.

Share your story

Has Calisphere helped you advance your research, complete a project, or find something meaningful? We'd love to hear about it; please send us a message.