Photographs – Kalimpong circa 1950s
Via Getty Images
(Admin: The renowned Tharchin Babu)
Title: Newspaper Editor
Caption: circa 1959: Mr Tanshi, editor of The Tibetan Newspaper, beside the sign on the door of the Tibet Mirror Press at Kalimpong, Sikkim, India. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Date created: 01 Jan 1959
Photographer: Keystone/Stringer
Collection: Hulton Archive
Credit: Getty Images
Source: Hulton Archive
Title: Bengali Market
Caption: 24th February 1951: A Tibetan lama or Buddhist monk, is seen in Kalimpong market, Northern Bengal, with a number of Nepalese and Indians.
Title: Tibetan Refugees
Caption: 24th February 1951: A Tibetan woman and her child in Kalimpong, northern Bengal, after fleeing Tibet following Chinese oppression in her homeland.
Title: Tibetan Family
Caption: A Tibetan mother and child on the road between Tibet and Kalimpong, Bengal.
Original Publication: Picture Post – 5210 – Tibet Dissolves – pub. 1951 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Getty Images)
Date created: 24 Feb 1951
(For last 3 photographs)
Original Publication: Picture Post – 5210 – Tibet Dissolves – pub. 1951 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)
Date created: 24 Feb 1951
Photographer: Bert Hardy/Stringer
Collection: Hulton Archive
Credit: Getty Images
Source: Hulton Archive
Hat tip to Mr. (Transhimalaya) Tempa for pointing me towards the images.
(Click on the photos for full images)
January 10th, 2010 at 10:04 pm IST
Dear Anuj,
Great pictures, thank you, allbeit Tharchin Babu without his customary hat. ‘Gettyimages’ has a whole collection of photographs of Darjeling from the early 1880s to 1990s. You could easily share them with your netizns.
Happy decade.
Sonam.
September 7th, 2010 at 9:17 am IST
Nice Pictures indeed. There are not many early pictures of Tibetan refugees from the 1959 era to be seen. As such the few rare pictures that have come up in recent times are the ‘Shakabpa’ collection, posted on line entitled ‘The Tibetan Exodus’. I am surprised that the Tibetan Library in Dharamsala, India does not possess much historical pictures of the early life of Tibetan refugees.
November 1st, 2010 at 6:17 am IST
The Shakabpa collection was amazingly wonderful on the history of Tibetan refugees in India. Thanks.
November 5th, 2010 at 1:12 am IST
thank you to all those people behind this beautiful website. I am born and brought up in kalimpong. i see this TIBET MIRROR press whenever i take a walk to main road. i see lots of people specially the westerners taking pictures of the the press. We the citizens living there rarely understand the importance of the press not only in the history of tibet but to the kalimpong itself.
wouldn’t it be a good subject for the local channels of kaimpong to show to its viewers? who is owning the place right now? is there anything that the authorities are doing about it? can an individual or the organisation take the initiative in restoring the lost glory for the visitors?
December 13th, 2010 at 6:33 am IST
I really enjoyed the article and the pictures of Kalimpong, 1950. Also discovered The Tibetan Exodus website at http://www.southasia.wisc.edu/tibet/index.htm
The authors of these photos are Kalimpong residents, and are the owners of Kanchan Cinema Hall.