India Photographer unknown. "People of India".... Lot 4044

India Photographer unknown. "People of India". 1868-1875. 8 albumen prints (oval and arch-topped). Each circa 11 x 15 cm and larger. Mounted to album pages, each with printed caption label below the image on the mount, and with text pages. This attractive group of portraits is from the eight-volume study entitled "The People of India" compiled between 1868-1875. It shows a wide range of Indian society in the 1860s and earlier. The different castes and indigenous groups of society.