Real Picture Of Mahraja Ranjit Singh

[PAL 07]

fateh,

[B4ND4]

http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?showtopic=3575&hl=

[dalsingh101]

It is what we would call "benauti"

fake

[waheguru_fateh]

i love this picture but i have a couple of questions, why does it look like the person in the back assuming its hari singh nalwa wearing what looks to be earings and some weird thing on top of dastaar

[SaRpAnCh]

There were no Cameras in 1831

[SaRpAnCh]

http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?s=&amp...ost&p=36448

a fake picture

[Harpreet_Singh]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sher_Ali_Khan

[asmlondon]

Please visit this video lecture from Author and Historian Parmjit Singh which includes a piece on the photograph that you have posted. This video lecture includes some fascinating details and facts about this photograph and the characters therein. You can forward to slide 26 but I woudl recomend that you watch the entire lecture which is stunningly illustrated.

The second in the series of Punjab Heritage Lectures launches today. Parmjit Singh presents a “Picture of the Sikhs” a presentation on the photographic record of the last 150 years of Anglo Sikh History.

The last one hundred and fifty years also coincide with the age of the development of photography. In 1849 on the eve of the second Anglo-Sikh was that ended the kingdom created by the legendry Maharaja Ranjit Singh, John McCosh, a surgeon in the British India army, took the first grainy shots of Sikhs and monuments of Lahore. Since then the history of the Sikhs has been played out in front of the camera’s lens.

McCosh heralded the firs of the military photographers who went on to capture the Sikhs in the British army. Early Victorian photographs of the Sikhs highlight attitudes connected with the British presence in India, indicating both the power of photography as a colonial tool of classification and appropriation. a unique opportunity to view images from public collections including the National Army Museum, Imperial War Museum and the British Library.

This lecture now accompanies Christy Campbell’s superb presentation on Maharaja Duleep Singh that was launched last month.

Please visit www.punjabheritagelectures.org to view the lecture

[caveman]

There were no Cameras in 1831

wrong, the first camera able to take a picture practically was created in 1685 by Johann Zahn but it wasnt a permanent photograph, the first permanent photograph was made in 1826 or 1827 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce using a sliding wooden box camera made by Charles and Vincent Chevalier in Paris.

[G. Singh]

I cant see the image :sad: