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| Keywords: King George V Hunting in Nepal album cover.jpg en The album consists of 16 pages and 50 photographs It appears incomplete with the back cover missing The front cover bears the company name Herzog Higgins Mhow Central India and the words Bound at the Caxton Works Bombay inside the front cover The album was discovered in a rural Indian home in Madhya Pradesh by the donor Dr U N Bhati Visiting Fellow Economics and Marketing School of Resources Environment and Society at The Australian National University The album was given to Dr Bhati by a distant relative who had worked for the former Maharaja and Maharani of Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh Mr and Mrs Parbinder Singh - who had given him the album The album contains 50 photographs depicting scenes of the shikar or hunt the hunted animals and the hunting camps of King George V in the Tarai in December 1911 The photographs feature the wild animals of the Tarai including tigers bears and rhinoceroses the use of the elephant hunting ring technique the activities of the mahouts or elephant trainers/handlers and shikaris or hunters as well as the various dignitaries involved in the visit Each individual photograph has a pencilled number but no caption 1911-12 http //www oldindianphotos in/2008_12_22_archive html author Custom license marker 2014 09 08 PD-Nepal PD-1923 Uploaded with UploadWizard George V of the United Kingdom | ||||
