Image 1 — India through the eyes of Emily Eden,
Image 2 — India through the eyes of Emily Eden,
Image 3 — India through the eyes of Emily Eden,
Image 4 — India through the eyes of Emily Eden,
Image 5 — India through the eyes of Emily Eden,
Image 6 — India through the eyes of Emily Eden,

India through the eyes of Emily Eden,

Travelling across northern India in the 1830s, Emily Eden (1797-1869) made a number of portraits of eminent people, and also of their attendants. Her work gives a unique insight into Punjab, especially at the close of the golden era of Maharaja Ranjit
Singh's reign and at the start of Queen Victoria's.
Members of the Eden family played prominent roles in British society and politics for nearly 200 years. Anthony Eden was the Conservative Prime Minister in the 1950s. But it began with his ancestor William Eden, a Whig aristocrat and MP in the 1770s.
Among William's many children, George Eden (Lord Auck-land) was Governor-General in India from 1836-42. One of the sharpest minds in the family was his younger sister Emily, an artist, poet and novelist. Being unmarried, she elected to accompany her bachelor brother to India, to act as his hostess.
So, too, did their youngest sibling Frances (known as Fanny).
Both Emily and Fanny accompanied George on his travels, including on his expedition from Calcutta to Lahore, to visit the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1838
Along the way, Emily drew portraits of people she met. Her subjects included Afghan and Sikh nobles; Akalis and hill people; fakirs, domestic servants and hunting attendants - anyone who caught her eye, whether young or old.
On the Edens' return to England, over two dozen of her sketches were engraved as lithographs, published as 'Por-traits of the Princes and People of India' in 1844.

u/Zestyclose-Author732 — 22 hours ago
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Found an old Urdu Bhagwant Gita in my district library(Sangrur, Indian Punjab).Can somebody verify the address for me, was there any JS Sant Singh Ji and Sons Publishers in Chowk Matti, Lahore. The address is written on the bottom

Is BJP really polarising India?

I am 20 years old Sikh from Punjab and everything I will write will be entirely my own opinion without any prejudice or hatred.
Is is clear that the ideological formation of BJP is deeply rooted with the idea of the restoration of the old days of glory( which is an inherent nature of almost all the fundamentalist movements across all religions), and their ideological counterpart, RSS is a well known far right organisation.
Since the BJP has come to power I can see a certain change in how the psyche of people have changed towards different issues.
(1) Victimhood- many of the people that I have met who are hardcore hindutvavadis, carry this notion that we have been slaves for 1000 years and now it is our time to rule and take back what is truly ours.
(2) Genocidal tendencies- two years ago I was with my friend and I told him that 35000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and without taking a second’s pause, he said\`Bahut Badhiya huya’, I mean what the hell is making him so inhumane that he gets unapologetically happy about the death of the people he doesn’t even know, when I further inquired about it, he told,\` Kashmir mein Hindu nahin mare?, I mean how can you draw an equivalence between the genocide of Kashmiri pandits and Gazans, for him the killing of Palestinians was kind of equating the balance with Kashmiri pandits, whereas the Palestinians hardly know there is a place called Kashmir. Now, here comes the concept of US vs THEM, where there is no empathy for the person who doesn’t belong to your ideological, religious or political preferences.
(3) Disassociation with the local culture- I had seen, that he eventually started to disassociate himself with anything that was Punjabi. I once said to him, that our linguistic and cultural identity is shared, and it cannot be changed, he then said that he would change it too, he would give up speaking the Punjabi, he would not acknowledge Maharaja Ranjit Singh as his hero but he would rather try to find his heroes in Shivaji, Maharana Pratap( nothing wrong in that but doing it at the cost of your own local heroes, it is dangerous), he rather wanted to associate himself with the Hindus of other hindi speaking state( that same generic stereotype tha India means Hindi and hindi means India)

(4) hyper-nationalism- now almost anything that goes against the interest of BJP is labelled as a villain or anti national, no matter how hard you try to subsist its your stance with logics but you can’t stand that unapologetic stupid confidence that they have while giving the shittiest argument to support their party.

(5) No consideration or empathy- That same friend of mine smirked like an evil villain when I told him that the foetus of a women was removed foetus of a pregnant women, seriously! And this notion can still be felt, last year when the wife of Late Lt Vinay Narwal said that Muslims and Kashmiri’s should not be blamed after the Pahalgam attack, a whole lobby of people started to run propaganda against her, they said she used to go to the rooms of Muslims students in JNU and she was in relation with many of them, seriously! That is how we respect wife of a deceased soldier.
When the spokesperson of External Affairs ministry declared ceasefire last year, people went on to abuse his daughter merely because her father declared a ceasefire while doing her job, and these are the same people who talk about the national and religious glory!

There is so much more to be said, but as of now, please tell me what do you all think.

Note- I am not a congress supporter, and all these ideas are purely honest.

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u/Zestyclose-Author732 — 2 days ago

Is BJP really polarising India?

I am 20 years old Sikh from Punjab and everything I will write will be entirely my own opinion without any prejudice or hatred.
Is is clear that the ideological formation of BJP is deeply rooted with the idea of the restoration of the old days of glory( which is an inherent nature of almost all the fundamentalist movements across all religions), and their ideological counterpart, RSS is a well known far right organisation.
Since the BJP has come to power I can see a certain change in how the psyche of people have changed towards different issues.
(1) Victimhood- many of the people that I have met who are hardcore hindutvavadis, carry this notion that we have been slaves for 1000 years and now it is our time to rule and take back what is truly ours.
(2) Genocidal tendencies- two years ago I was with my friend and I told him that 35000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and without taking a second’s pause, he said\`Bahut Badhiya huya’, I mean what the hell is making him so inhumane that he gets unapologetically happy about the death of the people he doesn’t even know, when I further inquired about it, he told,\` Kashmir mein Hindu nahin mare?, I mean how can you draw an equivalence between the genocide of Kashmiri pandits and Gazans, for him the killing of Palestinians was kind of equating the balance with Kashmiri pandits, whereas the Palestinians hardly know there is a place called Kashmir. Now, here comes the concept of US vs THEM, where there is no empathy for the person who doesn’t belong to your ideological, religious or political preferences.
(3) Disassociation with the local culture- I had seen, that he eventually started to disassociate himself with anything that was Punjabi. I once said to him, that our linguistic and cultural identity is shared, and it cannot be changed, he then said that he would change it too, he would give up speaking the Punjabi, he would not acknowledge Maharaja Ranjit Singh as his hero but he would rather try to find his heroes in Shivaji, Maharana Pratap( nothing wrong in that but doing it at the cost of your own local heroes, it is dangerous), he rather wanted to associate himself with the Hindus of other hindi speaking state( that same generic stereotype tha India means Hindi and hindi means India)

(4) hyper-nationalism- now almost anything that goes against the interest of BJP is labelled as a villain or anti national, no matter how hard you try to subsist its your stance with logics but you can’t stand that unapologetic stupid confidence that they have while giving the shittiest argument to support their party.

(5) No consideration or empathy- That same friend of mine smirked like an evil villain when I told him that the foetus of a women was removed foetus of a pregnant women, seriously! And this notion can still be felt, last year when the wife of Late Lt Vinay Narwal said that Muslims and Kashmiri’s should not be blamed after the Pahalgam attack, a whole lobby of people started to run propaganda against her, they said she used to go to the rooms of Muslims students in JNU and she was in relation with many of them, seriously! That is how we respect wife of a deceased soldier.
When the spokesperson of External Affairs ministry declared ceasefire last year, people went on to abuse his daughter merely because her father declared a ceasefire while doing her job, and these are the same people who talk about the national and religious glory!

There is so much more to be said, but as of now, please tell me what do you all think.

Note- I am not a congress supporter, and all these ideas are purely honest.

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u/Zestyclose-Author732 — 2 days ago

How strong or relevant is the concept of heaven in Hinduism like Islam or Christianity?

Islam and Christianity focuses heavily on heaven or Jannah. They say it is the final destination and the whole purpose of this life is to live it in such a way which makes you capable of getting the best reward from the god ie Jannah or Heaven.
Their religious scriptures gives the description of heaven and hell too . They say
Heaven will have the palaces where one brick will be of gold and one will be of silver
There will flow the rivers of milk, honey, and non- intoxicating wine
The fire in the hells would be 70 times hotter than the fire of earth.
Each time a new skin will be given after the previous skin is burnt and this would continue for eternity.

Are there such references in Hindu religious scriptures? please give correct references with strong substance

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u/Zestyclose-Author732 — 4 days ago
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Are there any ways to browse Vice City on browser?

I had been using Quenq.com to browse Vice City for free, but today the game has been taken down, is there any other way to browse it from any other website, especially on ios.

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u/Zestyclose-Author732 — 10 days ago
▲ 61 r/punjab

Khalsa Akhbar, Lahore, 8th February 1895.

Amazed to see that how much has Gurmukhi changed over 130 years.

u/Zestyclose-Author732 — 15 days ago

Let’s admit, fundamentalists does have a prejudice and hatred towards people of other faith. Can we say same in the case of Khalistanis, I have seen many of them hating on Hindus and many of them are as infuriating as hindutvavadis or Islamists. Is it true?

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u/Zestyclose-Author732 — 17 days ago

Ahmed Shah Abdali’s orders to Najib Khan and Jahan Khan.)Source-Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Fall of the Mughal Empire, Vol. II, Chapter on Abdali’s 1757 invasion, pp. 117–118)

u/Zestyclose-Author732 — 17 days ago
▲ 161 r/IndianHistory+2 crossposts

Jinnah on relations between India and Pakistan. (The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000)

u/TulipGuitar — 17 days ago

Current read.

It is about 400 pages long and I have already read up to 126 pages.
For those who don’t know, Dracula is a classic novel written by Bram Stoker and published in 1897 and rather than telling the story in a typical way, the whole story is narrated through letters and journals.
This novel widely popularised the modern vampire archetype.

u/Zestyclose-Author732 — 18 days ago

What are your favourite songs from 50s to 80s?

Please remember to turn off the translations
1 Chingari Koi Bhadke — Kishore Kumar
2 Raina Beet Jaye — Lata Mangeshkar
3 Aawaaz Deke Humein Tum Bulao — Mohammad Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar
4 Hum Hain Mata-e-Koocha-o-Bazaar — Lata Mangeshkar
5 Rehte The Kabhi Jinke Dil Mein — Lata Mangeshkar
6 Rasm-e-Ulfat Ko Nibhayein — Lata Mangeshkar
7 Mere Mehboob Qayamat Hogi — Kishore Kumar
8 Yahan Main Ajnabi Hoon — Mohammad Rafi
9 Chhu Lene Do Nazuk Honthon Ko — Mohammad Rafi
10 Mere Dushman Tu Meri Dosti Ko Tarse — Mohammad Rafi
11 Jaane Woh Kaise Log The — Hemant Kumar
12 Surmaye Ankhiyon Se — Sudesh Wadkar
13 Jaane Kahan Gaye Woh Din — Mukesh
14 Kisi Ki Muskurahaton Pe Ho Nisar — Mukesh
15 Kuchh To Log Kahenge — Kishore Kumar
16 Meri Bheegi Bheegi Si — Kishore Kumar
17 Aap Ki Yaad Aati Rahi Raat Bhar — Chhaya Ganguli
18 Ae Dil-e-Nadaan — Lata Mangeshkar
19 Chitthiye — Lata Mangeshkar
20 Kya Yahi Pyaar Hai — Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar

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u/Zestyclose-Author732 — 18 days ago