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Indian Raj British Indian Photography 1845-1947 (Harappa.com)
Photoraj including a list of books
Tony Davis’ Antiq-Photo biographies contains many names of photographers who worked in India, Burma and Ceylon in the 19th century. The site also has many photographs of India.
Afghanistan Old Photos. Scroll down the page to the Oldest Photos of Afghanistan taken by John Burke.
The Tibet Album -British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950 including Photographers. This site provides access to the photograph collections of two British museums - the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford) and the British Museum (London).

Photography in India (pdf) from the International Institute for Asian Studies(IIAS)-Netherlands
Photography, archaeology and afternoon tea (pdf) IIAS. A review of the book A Vision of Splendour, Indian Heritage in the Photographs of Jean Philippe Vogel, 1901- 1913. A second review of the same book, which is available at the British Library
Ethnographical Photography in India 1850-1900 by John Falconer
Photography in Colonial and Post Colonial India (pdf) by Megan Joyce

From Kashmir to Kabul by Omar A. Khan (2002). The harsh beauty of this region has been luring photographers since the Victorian age, the most famous of whom were two Irishmen William Baker and John Burke. The book chronicles their early days in Peshawar and their move to Murree, the Himalayan hill station on the border of Kashmir. It follows their documenting of the Afghan Wars, some of the earliest war photography, and their return to the plains of Lahore, where they continued to photograph the region’s people and landscape.
Limited View Google Books . Read the Preface to the book by F S Aijazuddin, which contains biographical details. Read a review of the book by Sophie Gordon in History of Photography 2003. Available at the British Library

In the Shadow of the Himalayas: Tibet - Bhutan - Nepal - Sikkim A Photographic Record by John Claude White 1883-1908 by Kurt Meyer (2006). John Claude White (1853-1918) was a civil engineer by education, a colonial administrator by profession, and a photographer by vocation. Read a review (pdf) of the book which contains biographical information, by Mark Turin of the University of Cambridge. Available at the British Library

In Pursuit of the Past by FIBIS member Christopher Penn. Read the article In pursuit of the past from The Hindu and the article Chasing the photographer, also from The Hindu. Available at the British Library

Sepia Prints: Memoirs of a Missionary by Viola Wiebe and Marilyn Wiebe Dodge (1990) is one of the few books to highlight the large amount of photographic material available from Christian archives and missionaries active in colonial India. Limited View Google Books. See also Missionary.

John McCosh in Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography, Volume 1, by John Hannavy (2007) page 911 (Limited View Google Books).
Linnaeus Tripe, a biography by the V&A Museum.

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 *[http://www.19cphoto.com/bios.html Tony Davis’ Antiq-Photo biographies] contains many names of photographers who worked in India, Burma and Ceylon in the 19th century. The site also has many [http://search.19cphoto.com/search/search_results.jsp?searchCode=3in photographs] of India.
 *[http://www.afghanistan-photos.com/ Afghanistan Old Photos]. Scroll down the page to the Oldest Photos of Afghanistan taken by John Burke.
+*[http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/ The Tibet Album] -British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950 including [http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/tibet_photographers.html Photographers]. This site provides access to the photograph collections of two British museums - the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford) and the British Museum (London).
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