At 10:04  26/07/05 +0100, you wrote: >In message <[email protected]>, Henry >Soszynski <[email protected]> writes >>Greetings, >>           For those interested, there's been a more photos added to the >>Patna/Dumaria page, and a new page on the Ajabpur/Banskhoh family has been >>uploaded. Both can be accessed from the following URL... >> >><http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~royalty/files/pix_india_idx.htm l>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~royalty/files/pix_india_idx.html >>Cheers, >>Henry >>PS When did photography start in India? I was just wondering if there are >>any photos of the Mughal Emperor around. >> >Yes. There is a very sad photo of the aged Bahadur Shah taken in exile >after his deposition, lying on a couch, apparently smoking a hookah, and >looking thoroughly depressed. I have seen it in "A Second Paradise - >Indian Courtly Life 1590-1947" by Naveen Patnaik, published by the >Metropolitan Museum of Art, N Y, 1985. It may have been published >elsewhere as well. The caption says "Attributed to P H Egerton, ca >1858". > >The Emperor had an obviously broken nose. How did it happen? >-- >Chris Pitt Lewis > > This is the one that I have, and the ex-Emperor does indeed look quite sad and forlorn. I hadn't noticed the broken nose, until I looked more closely. I've seen no source that even mentions the broken nose, odd. I also have .jpg of Prince Jiwan Bakht and his brother, dated 1858, as well as an undated one of Zeenat Mahal, looking quite aged. I do hope that there are more photos of the Mughals out there, though one of Akbar Shah would seem most unlikely. Cheers, Henry