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Detachment of Bhopal Battalion at Indore

1886

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
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Culture
India
Medium
albumen print
Measurements
Image: 19.1 x 26.5 cm (7 1/2 x 10 7/16 in.); Paper: 19.1 x 26.5 cm (7 1/2 x 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2016.266.32
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Description

In state and military portraits, people seated in chairs and in the middle are generally of the highest rank. Amid these Indian soldiers sits a lone British officer. The Bhopal Battalion had seen combat just six years earlier during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, helping to keep Afghanistan a British-friendly buffer against Russia’s desire to expand into India. This detachment includes a number of Sikhs, identifiable by their neatly trimmed beards and turbans that cover their ears. Members of that religious group were avidly recruited by the British Indian Army due to their reputed ferocity and courage in battle.
A horizontally oriented albumen print depicts twenty-eight men in a formal arrangement. Centrally, a man with light skin sits in a dark uniform and cap. Surrounding him, twenty-seven men with medium-dark skin wear light uniforms and tall, striped turbans; several wear medals. They stand in rows or sit cross-legged in the foreground. Behind them, dark climbing vines heavily drape over white columns and arched architecture.

Detachment of Bhopal Battalion at Indore

1886

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
India

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