Prints and Ephemera

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Collection of four pages from the illustrated news on the Santal Rebellion, 1855-1856. B

Price: $100.00

Note: The Santal Parganas was a district of British India in the Bhagalpur division of Bengal and covered an area of 5470 square meters. The Santals, who give their name to the district, were the most numerous aboriginal tribe in Bengal. They worked the coal mines of Raniganj and Karharbari and migrated to the tea gardens of Assam. t-sape058a1SAPE 058t-sape058a2SAPE 058In 1832 officials were deputed to demarcate with solid masonry pillars the area of the Daman-i-Koh, or “skirts of the hills”. The permission for Santals to settle in the valleys and on the lower slopes stimulated Santal immigration to an enormous extent. The Hindu money-lender soon made his appearance among them, and caused a rebellion in 1855-1856. The insurrection led to the establishment of a form of administration congenial to the immigrants; and a land settlement was carried out on conditions favorable to the occupants of the soil.

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Collection of six late 19th century half page advertisements for Ceylon tea from the rare periodical Black and White. B

Price: $120.00

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Large foldout illustration titled 'The Perahara Festival at Kandy, Ceylon, Before the Prince of Wales. Another large foldout illustration titled "The Prince of Wales in Ceylon - The Devils' Dance at the Private Perehara before the Prince, Kandy. B

Price: $120.00

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A large collection of 34 illustrated pages from European periodicals on scenes and types of Ceylon. Included are, Cinghalese chiefs; monkeys ravaging a village; a surf boat; different types; views of Kandy; different tree types; religious riots; hunting alligators; procession of the Pera-hara at Kandy; harbor entrance to Colombo; elephant hunting; gathering dates; environs of Colombo; interview of the new governor of Ceylon with native chiefs; local dancing; local circus; rock fortress of Sigiri; accident on the Ceylon railway; sorcerers; coffee plantation Mutu Coomara, Swami Mudellar, th first no-Christian Hindu barrister and the Tamil member of th legislative council of Ceylon.  B

Price: $420.00

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A large foldout illustration of the valleys and mountains of Central Asia. Dated 1885. B

Price: $60.00

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2 complete Italian periodicals on the subect of civil disobedience in British India in 1942. M

Price: $120.00

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A collection of almost 50 period illustrations from the obscure English periodical Black and White, on the Anglo-Pathan Border War 1897-1898. A small-scale border war on the Afghan-British frontier in 1897 grew into a substantial conflict as Pathan forces attacked many British installations (July), taking the Khyber Pass (August). A British autumn campaign took an army of 44,000 into Pathan-held territory, with inconclusive results. British forces managed to recapture the Khyber Pass in March. B

Price: $500.00

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A collection of ten illustrations from the English periodical Black and White, on the British Intervention in Chitral in 1895. Tribesmen in Chitral (northernmost Pakistan) remained hostile to the British, who had entered the area and established an agency in 1889. In 1895, a coup d’etat in Chtral cost the life of the ruling chief, Nizam-ul-Mulk, at the hands of his younger half-brother Amir-ul-Mulk, and Umra Khan, another relative resident outside of Chitral. Together, they had plans to oust the British from Chitral. Shortly after the coup, Umra Khan crossed the Lowari Pass and occupied Lower Chitral with a force of about 2700 men, giving out that he was conducting a religous war against the Kafirs of t-sape025aSAPE 025the Bashgal area.  Meanwhile, the political agent at Gilgit, Surgeon Major George Robertson, had been sent to Chitral by the government to report on the situation with his escort of 400 men, 300 being Kashmir state forces.  Robertson demanded an explanation from Umra Khan for the presence of his army in Chitral and requested an immediate withdrawl.  Umra Khan responded by laying siege to Drosh Fort, which surrendered on February 9, 1895.  The retreating Chitralis then concentrated at Ghariat. The British garrison at Chitral Fort consisted of 419 fighting men besides the administrative staff, transport personnel, servants and 52 Chitiralis.  The strength of Umra Khan’s force is not known but is estimated at 3000-5000 men.  In order to ascertain the strength of the enemy, the garrison of the fort made an ineffective sortie on the afternoon of March 3rd.  They suffered heavy casualties and made a difficult retreat to the fort where they were beseiged from March 3 – April 19, 1895.  During the siege, the forces of Umra Khan, Sher Afzal and rebellious Chitiralis gained two other successes, firstly at Reshun where two British officers were captured, their following destroyed and 40,000 rounds of ammunition taken, secondly the annihilation of about 100 men of the 14th Sikhs under Captain Ross at Kuragh defile. B

Price: $140.00

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A small collection of period illustrations from European sources on the Sikkim Expedition of 1888. Shown are rhw Niti Field Force on the road to Tibet, first glimpse of Tibet, a Tibetan booby trap, ibex shooting in the Himalayas, transport of trees in the forests of the Himalayas.

Price: $100.00

Note: In the beginning of the 18th century Bhutan appropriated a large tract of country on the east of Sikkim. Between 1776 and 1792 Sikkim was constantly at war with the victorious Gurkhas, who were, however, driven out of part of their conquests by the Chinese in 1792; but it was not until 1816 that the bulk of what is known to us as Sikkim was restored by the British, after the defeat of the Nepalese by General Ochterlony. t-sape024a1SAPE 024t-sape024a2SAPE 024In 1839 the site of Darjeeling was ceded by the raja of Sikkim. In 1849 the British resumed the whole of the plains (Tarai) and the outer hills, as punishment for repeated insults and injuries. In 1861 a British force was required to impose a treaty defining good relations. The raja, however, refused to carry out his obligations and defiantly persisted in living in Tibet; his administration was neglected, his subjects oppressed, and a force of Tibetan soldiers was allowed, and even encouraged, to seize the road and erect a fort within sight of Darjeeling. After months of useless re-monstrance, the government was forced in 1888 to send an expedition, which drove the Tibetans back over the Jelep pass. A convention was then concluded with China in 1890, whereby the British protectorate over Sikkim was acknowledged and the boundary of the state defined; to this was added a supplemental agreement relating to trade and domestic matters, which was signed in 1893. B

 

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Collection of seven illustrated pages from the Illustrated London News relating to the First Sikh War, 1845-1846.  Inlcuded are the capture of the Fort of Kote Kangra; Soondur Singh, Killadar of Kangra; hill forts of Powanghur and Punalla, Indian colours taken at Zublan, Ferozeshah, Aliwal and Alcan; plan of operations before Moltan; monument at Chillianwallah; sketches; double page panorama of troops on the march.

Price: $200.00

Note: The first war was precipitated by mutual suspicions and the turbulence of the Sikh army. The Sikh state in the Punjab had been built into a formidable power by the maharaja Ranjit Singh, who ruled from 1801 to 1839. Within six years of his death, however, the government had broken down in a series of palace revolutions and assassinations. By 1843, the ruler was a boy, the youngest son of Ranjit Singh, whose mother was proclaimed queen regent. t-sape023a5SAPE023t-sape023a6SAPE023Actual power, however, resided with the army, which was in the hands of “punches”, or military committees.  Relations with the British had already been strained during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-1842).  Having determined to invade British India under the pretext of forestalling a British attack, the Sikhs crossed the Sutlej River in December 1845.  They were defeated in the four bloody and hard-fought battles of Mudki, Firoz Shah (Firozpur), Aliwal, and Sobraon.  The British annexed Sikh lands east of the Sutlej and between it and the Beas River; Kashmir and Jammu were detached and the Sikh army limited to 20,000 infantry and 12,000 cavalry.  A British resident was stationed in Lahore with British troops. B

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