Photograph Size: 18.2x29cm.

General Raja Sir Amar Singh, of Basohi, KCSI. Born at Jammu, 14th January 1864  Privately Educated. Granted Basohi in jagir 1868. Page of Honour to the Viceroy, Lord Lytton, at the Imperial Durbar at Delhi in 1877, Civl Member. State Council, 1887-1889, Presedent, State Council 1889-1891 (Vice-President, 1888-1889 & 1891-1905), GOC-in-C Kashmir State Forces 1899-1909, MSC for Army, Police and Telegraph matters 1899-1909, Foreign and Chief Minister 1905-1909, Minister-in-Charge of the Military, Dharmarth, Hunting Grounds and Game Preservation Departments. Member of Civil and Military, Jammu and Kashmir State Clubs. Received KIH gold medal in 1877 and the Delhi Durbar medal 1903. An amateur architect of repute. Married first 7th May 1878, with Rani Sahiba, a lady from the Chib family. Secondly married with in November 1888, another lady from the Chib family. He died from paralysis, at Amar Mahal, Jammu on 26th March 1909, having had issue an only surviving son.

Photographed by: Keturah Collings, London.
Color Photograph. Photograph Size: 33.5x23cm. Sheet Size: 38.5x28cm.

Lieutenant-General H.H. Ali Jah, Umdat ul-Umara, Hisam us-Sultanat, Mukhtar ul-Mulk, Azim ul-Iqtidar, Rafi-us-Shan, Wala Shikoh, Muhtasham-i-Dauran, Maharajadhiraj Maharaja Shrimant Sir Madho Rao Scindia Bahadur, Shrinath, Mansur-i-Zaman, Fidvi-i-Hazrat-i-Malika-i-Mua’zzama-i-Rafi-ud-Darja-i-Inglistan, Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior, GCSI (25.5.1895), GCVO (31.12.1902), GBE (c.4.12.1917), KIH 1st Class (23.5.1900). Born at at Lashkar, 20th October 1876, fourth and eldest surviving son of General H.H. Maharaja Shrimant Sir Jayaji Rao Scindia Bahadur, by his fourth wife, H.H. Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Maharani Sakhyabai Raje Sahib Scindia Bahadur, CI. Educated privately. Succeeded on the death of his father 20th June 1886, and reigned under a Council of Regency, until he came of age and was invested with full ruling powers, 15th December 1894. Granted a personal salute of 21-guns, 12th December 1911. Served in the Tirah expedition 1896, Hon. Col. IA 21/5/1898, served in the Boxer rebellion as Orderly Officer to the GOC British Forces in North China 1901. Attended the Coronation of the King-Emperor Edward VII at Westminster Abbey in Lodnon 1902, Delhi Durbar in 1903, Coronation of the King-Emperor George V in 1911, and Delhi Durbar in 1911. Received: Coronation (1902 & 1911), and Delhi Durbar gold medals (1903 & 1911), DGBStJ (25.11.1911), GC of the Order of Philip the Magnanimous of Hesse (24.1.1903). Married (first) at Gwalior, 2nd January 1891 with H.H. Maharani Chinkubai Raje Sahib Scindia, CI (4.6.1928) (died at Bombay on 23rd November 1931), Regent from 5th June 1925 until her death, Colonel-in-Chief 2nd Ali Jah Gwalior Lancers, 1902, daughter of Sardar Madho Rao Balwant Rao Mohite of Satara in the Bombay Presidency. Secondly Married  at Gwalior on 8th May 1913 with H.H. Maharani Gajrabai Raje Sahib Scindia (died at Samudra Mahal, Worli, Bombay on 13th January 1943), Regent and President Council of Regency from 23rd November 1931 to 22nd November 1936, received Silver Jubilee (1935) and Coronation (1937) medals, daughter of Rao Rana Shrimant Satrojirao Vithalrao Rane, Sar Desai of Sankli in Goa, Portuguese India. He died at Paris, France on 5th June 1925, having had issue, one son and one daughter.

Photographed by: Laffayte Studio.
Color Photograph. Photograph Size: 19x27.2cm.

Major H.H. Raja Sir Joginder Sen Bahadur, 18th Raja of Mandi (1913-1986), son of Mian Kishan Singh Sahib, born on 20th August 1904, K.C.S.I., educated at Queen Mary's College and Aitchison College, Lahore, Indian Ambassador to Brazil 1952-56, Member of Lok Sabha 1957-62, Honorary Lt.-Col. 3rd/17th Dogra Regiment and Bengal Sappers and Miners, married First on 8th February 1923, with H.H. Rani Amrit Kaur, daughter of Col. H.H. Farzand i-Dilband Rasikhul-Itiqad Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja Sir Jagatjit Singh Bahadur of Kapurthala, and his wife, Rani Kanari. Married 2ndly on 13th May 1930, with Kumari Kusum Kumari, daughter of Kunwar Prithviraj Sinhji of Rajpipla, and had issue two sons and two daughters. He died on 16th June 1986.

Photographed by: Andrew Charles Brisbane Neill.
Photograph Size: 34x26cm. Sheet Size: 53x33cm. Photograph with a close view of a portion of the façade of the Hoysaleshwara Temple at Halebid in Karnataka, taken by William Henry Pigou in c. 1855, from 'Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore'. Halebid, a small town in the Hassan district, was once the capital of the Hoysala dynasty of the southern Deccan which flourished from the 12th to the 14th century.

Photographed by: Andrew Charles Brisbane Neill.
Photograph Size: 34.5x26cm. Sheet Size: 53x33cm. Photograph of the Chennakeshava Temple at Belur in Karnataka, taken by Andrew Charles Brisbane Neill in c.1855, from 'Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore'. Belur, a small town on the banks of the Yagachi river in Hassan district, was once the capital of the Hoysala dynasty, which ruled the southern Deccan from the 12th to 14th century. The Chennakeshava temple, dedicated to Vishnu, was begun in 1117 AD by Bittiga (Vishnuvardhana) who ruled approximately from 1106-1142, to celebrate his victory over the Cholas to the south and independence from the Chalukyas to the north.

Photographed by: William Henry Pigou.
Photograph Size: 37.5x28cm. Sheet Size: 53x33cm. Photograph of a temple tower of the Virupaksha Temple, at Vijayanagara in Karnataka, taken by William Henry Pigou in c.1857, from 'Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore'.

Photographed by: William Henry Pigou.
Photograph Size: 39x28.5cm. Sheet Size: 53x33cm. Photograph with a general view from the north-east of the Hoysaleshwara Temple at Halebid in Karnataka, taken by William Henry Pigou in c. 1855, from 'Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore'. Halebid (ancient Dwarasamudra), a small town in the Hassan district, was once the capital of the Hoysala dynasty of the southern Deccan which flourished from the 12th to the 14th century. Invasions by armies of the Delhi Sultanate led to its decline by the mid-14th century.

Photographed by: Thomas Biggs from Antiquities of Ahemdabad, 1860s.
Photograph Size: 13.5x18.5 cm. Sheet Size: 21x16.5cm.

Photographed by: Thomas Biggs from Antiquities of Ahemdabad, 1860s.
Photograph Size: 13.5x18.5 cm. Sheet Size: 21x16.5cm.

Photographed by: Thomas Biggs from Antiquities of Ahemdabad.
Photograph Size: 13.5x18.5 cm. Sheet Size: 21x16.5cm.