Image: Memorial Shrines for Gulab Singh and Ranbir Singh, Jammu, India, ca.1875-ca.1940 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS10-008)

Description: Memorial Shrines for Gulab Singh and Ranbir Singh, Jammu, India, ca.1875-ca.1940 Photograph of large memorial shrines in the city of Jammu. The shrines were built for Gulab Singh (1792a1857), the founder and first Maharaja of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, and his son Ranbir Singh (1830-1885).; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Jammu City, which is also known as the "City of Temples". A mission station occupied by Church of Scotland missionaries was founded here in the late 19th/early 20th century. Jammu is also one of the three administrative divisions within Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state in India. Photographer: Unknown Subject (personal name): Gulab Singh, Maharaja of Kashmir, 1792-1858; Ranbir Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, 1830-1885 Filename: imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS10-008.tif Coverage date: 1875/1940 Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 Geographic subject (region): Jammu and Kashmir Type: images Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity Archival file: impaunpub_Volume7/1724.url Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom Geographic subject (country): India Format (aacr2): 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm. Geographic subject (continent): Asia Rights: Contact the repository for details. Part of series: In the Temple City of Jammu LS10 Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk Subject (lcsh Keyword): Memorials; Heads of state Date created: 1875/1940 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Subject (aat genre): exterior views Format (aat): lantern slides Legacy record ID: impa-m69232 Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources File: GB 237 CSWC47/LS10/8
Title: Memorial Shrines for Gulab Singh and Ranbir Singh, Jammu, India, ca.1875-ca.1940 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS10-008)
Credit: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/64842
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