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.
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January 10th, 2010 at 10:04 pm MST
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 MST
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.