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High Class Students and Teachers at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla (verso)

Raja Deen Dayal , 1884

High Class Students and Teachers at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla (verso), by Raja Deen Dayal, 1884
High Class Students and Teachers at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla (verso), by Raja Deen Dayal, 1884

High Class Students and Teachers at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla (verso) is a photography by the Impressionist artist Raja Deen Dayal. It dates from 1884 and is held in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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266), which was probably commissioned by a British civil servant visiting or working in India around 1888 as a personal souvenir of his experiences there.

These photographs are part of an album, now disassembled, of around 105 photographs taken in India between 1885 and summer 1887 that provide glimpses into the lives of the British colonial elite and royal and upper-class Indians. The museum holds another group of 37 pictures from this album (2016.266), which was probably commissioned by a British civil servant visiting or working in India around 1888 as a personal souvenir of his experiences there.

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Raja Deen Dayal is regarded now, and was considered during his lifetime, to be India’s most important 19th-century photographer.

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