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High caste women, Harkua, India, ca. 1915
Black and white lantern slide showing a group of women of a high caste in Harkua village in the Gopalganj district of Bihar, India. Three women stand and two crouch on the ground. All wear saris and conspicuous jewellery. The caste system in India was a method of dividing up Hindu society according to role. If these women are high caste, they may be members of the Brahmin group, the priest or scholar class. The caption to the slide reads: "High caste women in zenana at Harkua village in Gopalganj." A zenana (literally meaning "pertaining to women") was the part of the household reserved for women in Muslim south Asian households. These zenanas would be visited by the wives of missionaries as part of mission work. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.
Photographer: Unknown
Filename: IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-37.tif
Coverage date: 1910/1920
Subject (unesco): Indigenous peoples; Ethnic groups
Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Archival file: Volume3/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-37.tif
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Harkua
Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
Geographic subject (country): India
Format (aacr2): lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
Geographic subject (continent): Asia
Rights: Contact the repository for details.
Part of series: Regions Beyond Missionary Union. India captioned lantern slides (CSCNWW33/OS14)
Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
Date created: 1910/1920
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): group portraits
Format (aat): lantern slides; photographs
Geographic subject (state): Bihar
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
Geographic subject: populated places
File: CSCNWW33/OS14/37
Subject (lcsh): Women; Hinduism; Castes and tribes of India
Date 1910/1920 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78253
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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