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Hindu Sadhus, Jammu, ca.1875-ca.1940
Photograph of two Hindu Sadhus sitting in a meditative position. Sadhu is a term used for a mystic, a practitioner of yoga or a wandering monk. The sadhu is dedicated to achieving the fourth Hindu goal of life by means of meditation and contemplation.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Jammu City, which is also known as the "City of Temples". A mission station occupied by Church of Scotland missionaries was founded here in the late 19th/early 20th century. Jammu is also one of the three administrative divisions within Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state in India.
Photographer: Unknown
Filename: imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS10-020.tif
Coverage date: 1875/1940
Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Geographic subject (region): Jammu and Kashmir
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Archival file: impaunpub_Volume7/1736.url
Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
Geographic subject (country): India
Format (aacr2): 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
Geographic subject (continent): Asia
Rights: Contact the repository for details.
Part of series: In the Temple City of Jammu LS10
Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
Subject (lcsh Keyword): Meditation; Hinduism
Date created: 1875/1940
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): group portraits
Format (aat): lantern slides
Legacy record ID: impa-m69244
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
File: GB 237 CSWC47/LS10/20
Date 1875/1940 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/64854
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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