Nonica Datta

A portrait of a Sikh artist at work, possibly a self-portrait, attributable to Bishan Singh, North India, Amritsar or Lahore, circa 1860-70 Sothebys @swativashishtha @ssharadmohhan @PunjabiRooh @IndiaArtHistory @Kautilya02

An 1871 map depicting the areas of Kooloo Lahoul & Spiti. Present day #Manali is Menalee, #Kulu is Sooltanpore, #Mandi is Mundee, #Chichim is Chikim. Zoom in. 1870s from @RGS_IBG #History #Cartography #HimachalPradesh @DalrympleWill @dpanikkar @ssharadmohhan @PunjabiRooh @JAJafri

A local family posing with an Indian soldier France, 1915

Niloufer Farhat Begum Sahiba (Jan 4, 1916 - Jun 12, 1989) one of the last princesses of the Ottoman Empire, was married to the second son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Moazzam Jah. She was judged one of the 10 most beautiful women in the world. Photo © Jack Birns (Sept 1948)

Photograph by Felice Beato, taken circa 1860, featuring an ornate doorway and upper balcony that are believed to belong to the Naya Mandir of Dharampura in Delhi. Image Credit: Wellcome Collection.

Delhi's Chandni Chowk (Moonlit Market) by 19th c. photographer Felice Beato #history #India #bnwphotography

The Golden Temple, #Amritsar, photographed by Felice Beato, c. 1858. #architecture

Taken by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) around 1863, The Dream uses double exposure to show a girl both asleep and dreaming. The ghostly image reflects Victorian fascination with spirit photography and Carroll’s enduring curiosity about the unseen.

Col. H.H. the Maharaja Sir Jagaddipendra Narayan of Cooch Behar learning to dance the Mambo from Ms. Betty Martin at the Arthur Murray Dance Centre in London, 1956.

Her Highness The Rajmata Gayatri Devi of Jaipur.

The Maharaja Hanwant Singh of Jodhpur was offered by M.A. Jinnah a sea outlet through Karachi as a free port, free import of arms, continuance of the manufacture of firearms in his State, jurisdiction over the Jodhpur-Hyderabad railway, and a large supply of grains in times (1/3)

People of Bikaner gave their Maharaja, H.H. Ganga Singh, the title Bhagiratha of the Kali Yuga, because, like Bhagiratha who brought the Ganga to earth in the Treta Yuga, H.H., through his tireless efforts, brought water to the barren desert and transformed it into fertile fields

1950s :: Pond's Advertisement " Your Beauty Is Your Dowry "

On Firaq Gorakhpuri's birth anniversary, who was a renowned Urdu poet and a Padma Bhushan Award winner. #NAI shares a rare 1959 interview (The Tej Weekly) capturing his reflections on literature, culture & life. -PA, S.P. Haque, Sn. No. 27 #FiraqGorakhpuri #HistoryThroughNAI

@SDBiju1 Lovely

Sri Lanka Wart Frog (Lankanectes corrugatus), a frog endemic to Sri Lanka and a close cousin of India’s Night Frog genus (Nyctibatrachus). #SriLankan #frogs #India #wildlifephotography

A glimpse of the amazing fusion of Persian miniature painting with Indian culture: Lord Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj, Folio from a Harivamsa (a genealogy of Hari Krishna), were translated into Persian for the first time during Akbar’s reign.  #Happyjanmashtami2025

Kanchan Prava Devi, a Queen of Tripura as the wife of Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarma, King of Tripura State, 1922. After her husband's death in 1947, she was regent of Tripura until it was merged with India in 1949.

#NAIArchivalGem #NAI presents a rare glimpse of the Ramayana in Bamboo leaf in Bengali script, containing an extract from a chapter of Ramayana; "Lanka Kand". This folio is a part of 200-year-old manuscript copies of the Ramayana from Tripura Tribes. Source: Acc. No. 2661

@rahulzsing Thank you so much.

@nonica_datta Many, but last month I had read ‘Urban Roots of Indian Nationalism’ (1979) and I learnt so much from it.

Sad to hear of his passing but what a legacy to have left behind with his works on Calcutta and its Municipal History which I have read religiously! #RajatKantaRay #history #presidencyuniversity telegraphindia.com/amp/my-kolkata…