We drove in a Morris Minor Traveller from Highbury to India
0.1 covers CCN sitting in an orchard beside the Bosphorus while John Keay shaves. Then to Kabul, and on Bamian Lake and the huge Buddhas carved into rock there. (since destroyed by the Taliban.) The images of dancers were taken near Gilgit, Pakistan.
0.2 and 0.3 were taken in Kashmir, the Valley
and Gulmarg and Nagin Lake. Then we drove to Bihar, via Kangra Valley. There my first image of Gaddis, a biblical view of shepherds in white with their white flocks. On Through Mandi town and across the Shivaliks towards Shimla. The image here of range after range of hill in low light was to become so familiar in the years to come.
As we drove on East there ware images of a Gujar family on a ferry and of the Morris, by now referred to as the ‘Jewel of the East’ on the same ferry.
Kranti Singh and CCN at home in Bihar before we headed back West. The ‘Jewel’ crossing the Indus on a bridge made of boats. A steam engine chugging along the empty terrain East of Quetta.
Last images are of a chilly picnic beside the Caspian and finally deep snow through Turkey.
The Jewel made it back to London and was sold back to the car lot by the river where we had bought her.
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Rest House near Jim Corbet Park, UP. The Morris Traveller, we called ‘jewel of the East’, parked in front, Kranti Singh reading on left of picture while men clean the chairs.
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Kullu. The Largi-Mandi gorge road. In the 1970s this section of the road was often blocked, sometimes involving ‘trans-shipment’- walking across the block to a bus waiting the other side, you hoped.
Kullu. As for 1.1.18 the Largi Mandi gorge road.
Kot temple, carved panels. Peacock and tiger head protruding form the end of the ridge pole.
Udaipur. Mirkula temple detail of the very fine wood carving of scenes from the Mahabharata
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Manali Bazaar. Nepali woman and a school girl.
Manali Bazaar. Lahauli women.
On the way to Dunghri Mela. A deota’s ‘rath’ being carried. (see 1.3.5)
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Bridge over the Chandrabhaga on the way to Triloknath. Image may be reversed.
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Women and child near Jispa.
Girls on a bus. The coat/dress is called ‘cholu’ in Miyar. In Lahaul it is called ‘katter’
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Village near Jispa. The ibex horns are an offering to Bonpo deity.
Looking back down into the Bhaga Valley, on the way to the Baralacha Pass.
Looking up towards the Baralacha La (Pass). Christina & Tsring Dorze (Bhoti master).
Staircase to the roof level in a Lahauli house. A ‘jharu’, a sack of potatoes, and a goat-hair woven mat under the roof. Traditionally built houses in the background.
Tsring Dorze’s wife. Making buckwheat pancakes, in their house near Keylong.
Lahaul summer. Elderly shepherd with dogs, near Jispa.
Jispa, portrait of a boy in a hat.
A yak near Kurgiakhkh with mountains behind it & track across the hill.
Ladakhi woman cleaning barley. Wearing wool cloak & amber necklace.
Detail of two boys, one in jacket, the other in a gown. The latter is holding a board for school lessons.
Woman wearing traditional headdress with turquoises & a cloak of sheep or goat skin. Child in basket on her back, child’s cap decorated with cowrie shell.
Ladakhi woman wearing traditional headdress with turquoises & a cloak of sheep or goat skin. Child in basket on her back, wearing traditional child’s cap with cowrie shell.
Nagin Lake. Kashmir. Christina with Major, houseboat owner, and all his family
Chorten, with Tikse gompa (monastery) on the hill behind.
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Houses. Buddhist shrine on the left. Hay drying in yard. A layer of furze on the roof. High snowy mountains in background.
Leh bazaar. Jeeps to hire as taxis. Two women in traditional clothes, one with child on her back. Poster for a Hindi movie.
