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Bengali Girls School IB1507, during World War Two

Bengali Girls School IB1507, during World War Two

Bengali Girls School Two of the schoolgirls intent on a lesson

NO-NB BLDSA GM2a178n - Norway. Public domain image

NO-NB BLDSA GM2a178n - Norway. Public domain image

Norsk bokmål: Baul, dvs. grupper av diktere og sangere/musikere fra landsbyen i Bengal som praktiserer sin egen religion. Fra et marked (mela). Georg Morgenstiernes dagbok nr. 9, side 63–, 101– English: Baul, i... More

Prabasi Bengali Sammelan

Prabasi Bengali Sammelan

12th Prabasi Bengali Sammelan

Dhuniya, Muslim cotton carders, in Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Dhuniya, Muslim cotton carders, in Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Dhuniya, Muslim cotton carders, in Eastern Bengal Public domain photograph of ethnic groups in India, ethnography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Historical image of a Bengali couple

Historical image of a Bengali couple

Historical image of a Bengali couple

Historical image of a Bengali family

Historical image of a Bengali family

Historical image of a Bengali family

Portrait of a Dosadh "syce" or groom in Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Portrait of a Dosadh "syce" or groom in Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

The Dosadh ethnic group were traditionally associated with Bihar though some families lived in Dacca (Dhaka, Bangladesh) during the nineteenth century. Dosadhs were worked as house bearers, syces, coolies and ... More

Portrait of a man belonging to the Dosadh ethnic group in Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Portrait of a man belonging to the Dosadh ethnic group in Eastern Beng...

The Dosadh ethnic group were traditionally associated with Bihar though some families lived in Dacca (Dhaka, Bangladesh) during the nineteenth century. Dosadhs were worked as house bearers, syces, coolies and ... More

Portrait of five opium smokers arranged in a Chauki with pipes and other equipment in Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Portrait of five opium smokers arranged in a Chauki with pipes and oth...

Portrait of five opium smokers arranged in a Chauki (small bed like furniture) with pipes and other equipments - Eastern Bengal 1860's

Radha Gobinda Kar - A black and white photo of a man in a suit
Ramaprasad Chanda - A black and white photo of a man with glasses
Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson

Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson

Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson, KCSI, CIE: Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 1882-1887

Sir Frederick James Halliday

Sir Frederick James Halliday

Sir Frederick James Halliday, KCB: first lieutenant-governor of Bengal, 1854-1859

Sir John Peter Grant

Sir John Peter Grant

Sir John Peter Grant, KCB, GCMG: lieutenant-governor of Bengal (1859-1862), governor of Jamaica

Swarnakumari Devi - Public domain portrait print

Swarnakumari Devi - Public domain portrait print

Pic from Bethune School and College Centenary Volume 1949. No copyright.

Bengali-babu tarak chandra chowdhury

Bengali-babu tarak chandra chowdhury

Zamidar, a Bengalese Babu (a clerk who managed the affairs of the Colonial British in India).

A man operating a silk loom at Ghotal in Medinipur, Bengal - 1873

A man operating a silk loom at Ghotal in Medinipur, Bengal - 1873

A man operating a silk loom at Ghotal in Medinipur, Bengal - 1873

A Muslim Scholar posed with a Book - Eastern Bengal 1860's

A Muslim Scholar posed with a Book - Eastern Bengal 1860's

A Muslim Scholar posed with a Book - Eastern Bengal 1860's

Boy from the caste of scribes, Bengal (c. 1856)

Boy from the caste of scribes, Bengal (c. 1856)

Boy from the caste of scribes, Bengal, about 1856

Five Sankharis in Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Five Sankharis in Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Five Sankharis (shell-cutters and bracelet makers) in Eastern Bengal

Group of musicians and dancers in Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Group of musicians and dancers in Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Group of musicians and dancers in Eastern Bengal. Public domain photograph of 19th-century group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait of a Dom man from Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Portrait of a Dom man from Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Portrait of a Dom man from Eastern Bengal. In Eastern Bengal, members of the Dom ethnic group were trappers and hunters, as well as manufacturing mats, baskets and drums in the towns and on occasion acting as ... More

Portrait of a man of the Kochh Mandai tribe holding a thick-bladed agricultural knife in Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Portrait of a man of the Kochh Mandai tribe holding a thick-bladed agr...

The exact location of this tribe's origin is unknown. At the time of this photograph they inhabited tracts of jungle to the north of Dacca in eastern Bengal or modern Bangladesh.

Portrait of a Muslim ascetic (fakir) in Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Portrait of a Muslim ascetic (fakir) in Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Portrait of a Muslim ascetic (fakir) in Eastern Bengal. This fakir was a member of the Madaria order of Sufis who followed the saint Shaikh Sayyid Badi-u'd-din Qutb al-Madar.

Portrait of a religious mendicant (Darwesh) from Eastern Bengal in the 1860s

Portrait of a religious mendicant (Darwesh) from Eastern Bengal in the...

This person is a dervish of the Sufi Chishti order. Sufis are devotees of the mystical branch of Islam. In this photograph the man is a follower of the Indian saint Muin-u'd-din Chishti, whose shrine in Ajmer ... More

Prasanna Tagore - A black and white photo of a man in a turban

Prasanna Tagore - A black and white photo of a man in a turban

Prasanna Coomar Tagore died in 1896. Pic copyright expired. Source: Calcutta - The Living City.

Annette Akroyd - A black and white photo of a group of women

Annette Akroyd - A black and white photo of a group of women

Annette Akroyd with the students of Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya, 1875. Public domain photograph of 19th-century female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ramaprasad Sen - Drawing. Public domain image.

Ramaprasad Sen - Drawing. Public domain image.

Image of Ramprasad Sen from "Brihad Banga" Dinendra Chadra Sen, Calcutta Univercity, Calcutta, 1935 pg 542বাংলা: রামপ্রসাদ সেন, অষ্টাদশ শতাব্দীর শেষভাগে অঙ্কিত চিত্র, বৃহৎ বঙ্গ, দীনেশচন্দ্র সেন, কলিকাতা বিশ্ব... More

Sarada Devi - A black and white photo of a woman in a blanket

Sarada Devi - A black and white photo of a woman in a blanket

Sarada Devi, mother of Rabindranath Tagore Русский: Шарода Деби (Шарада Деви), мать Рабиндраната Тагора Українська: Шарода Дебі (Шарада Деві), мати Рабіндраната Тагора

Dawk Walas (Postmen) of Bengal - ILN 1858

Dawk Walas (Postmen) of Bengal - ILN 1858

*"Dawk Wallahs of Bengal"*, 1858 Sketches of Calcutta. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 20 February 1858. Dawk Walas (Postmen) of Bengal https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/U313733/Sketches... More

Basanta Koomar Roy

Basanta Koomar Roy

Photo of Basanta Koomar Roy, from his publicity brochure for the book Rabindranath Tagore – The man and his poetry (1915)