[BITList] Fwd: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Coo! - what a lovely set of photos!!

[John Feltham]

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From: "Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar" <bosham at gmail.com>
Date: 30 July 2009 5:09:02 PM
To: <india-british-raj at rootsweb.com>
Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Coo! - what a lovely set of photos!!
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Picnics and pith helmets: Found in a rusty biscuit tin, a unique
record of one diplomat's travels round the British Empire

29th July 2009

Champagne on the beach. Picnics on the steppes. Fishing a tranquil
river surrounded by servants. Ah, how elegant was the colonial lifestyle
of the early 20th century.

These evocative pictures, captured by British diplomat Lt. Col. Ralph
Ponsonby Watts, spent several decades lying forgotten in a biscuit
tin before they were found - and lovingly restored - by forensic
photographer Nigel Sorrell. They show diplomats and locals in the
remote places to which Ponsonby Watts was posted - including
undisturbed corners of Iran, Tibet and Oman.

Among the images he captured are a beautiful study of two children
on horseback in China and a portrait of stick-thin Hindu holy men
trudging along a dusty road in India.

Ponsonby Watts was born in India in 1892, the youngest of seven
sons of a British Indian Army colonel. The family moved to England
when he was three.

He broke off his studies in Oxford to fight in World War I, but was
invalided out after the battle of Ypres. Undeterred by his injuries,
he joined the volunteer army which General Kitchener was recruiting
in Manchester. Then, following postings to the Middle East with
the Machine Gun Corps, he found himself back in India. [snip]

Full story, lavishly illustrated with photos, at http://tinyurl.com/nta4b8

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203087/Picnics-pith-helmets-Found-rusty-biscuit-tin-unique-record-diplomats-travels-round-British-Empire.html#

--- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar




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