This is a website which offers the Raja's photographs for sale and I do not make any money out of it nor am I related to the website owner nor Lala Raja Deen Dayal.
:http://www.deendayal.com/index01.htm
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Raja Deen Dayal
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Hyderabadi
, Aug 14 2007 12:08 AM
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Hyderabadi
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Posted 14 August 2007 - 12:08 AM
Raja Deen Dayals brings to life 19th century India.......
This is a website which offers the Raja's photographs for sale and I do not make any money out of it nor am I related to the website owner nor Lala Raja Deen Dayal.
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http://www.deendayal.com/index01.htm
This is a website which offers the Raja's photographs for sale and I do not make any money out of it nor am I related to the website owner nor Lala Raja Deen Dayal.
:http://www.deendayal.com/index01.htm
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Posted 14 August 2007 - 12:33 AM
Fantastic site! It will take a while to explore it!
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Posted 14 August 2007 - 12:56 AM
Great Link, Hyderabadi. I liked the Taj Mahal amongst them the most.
Discover all that you are not -- body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that -- nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive." -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Posted 14 August 2007 - 02:00 AM
Enjoyed the link.
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Posted 11 September 2007 - 03:09 PM
In 1885 Deen Dayal came to Hyderabad with a letter of introduction from the Viceroy Lord Dufferin to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Mehboob Ali Khan. The Nizam appointed him State photographer. He was so impressed by the superb quality of Deen Dayal’s photographic work that in 1895 he conferred the title of ‘Raja Musavvir Jung Bahadur, do hazari wa ek hazar sawar wa alam’ on him. It was a title that came from the Mughal period. It entitled him to keep a cavalry of 2000 and when going out, be followed by a procession of one thousand horses and fly a personal pennant. Of this string of titles, he used only ‘Raja’.
Deen Dayal settled down in Secunderabad and set up an establishment under the name of ‘Raja Deen Dayal & Sons. Because of the prevalence of the custom of ‘purdah’ amongst the ladies in Hyderabad, Deen Dayal took the initiative of employing an Englishwoman, Mrs. Kennedy Levick, to be in charge of the ladies’ section of the studio. In Hyderabad, it was his familiarity with the customs and manners the Indian court, which gave him an edge over his European rivals. He moved in the two worlds with perfect ease and confidence. One day in 1894, while on a hunting trip, the Nizam was moved to compose the following couplet in Urdu in praise of his photographer.
"Ajab yeh karte hain tasvir mein kamaal/Ustaadon ke hain ustaad Raja Deen Dayal" (In the art of photography, surpassing all, a master of masters is Raja Deen Dayal.)
He has left for us an exquisite photographic record of British India, of a bygone Colonial era influenced by Native Princely India- its picturesque opulence, rich costumes, whiskered nobility, hookah bearers, royal palaces, hunts, and parades, elephant carriages & historic events.
Deen Dayal settled down in Secunderabad and set up an establishment under the name of ‘Raja Deen Dayal & Sons. Because of the prevalence of the custom of ‘purdah’ amongst the ladies in Hyderabad, Deen Dayal took the initiative of employing an Englishwoman, Mrs. Kennedy Levick, to be in charge of the ladies’ section of the studio. In Hyderabad, it was his familiarity with the customs and manners the Indian court, which gave him an edge over his European rivals. He moved in the two worlds with perfect ease and confidence. One day in 1894, while on a hunting trip, the Nizam was moved to compose the following couplet in Urdu in praise of his photographer.
"Ajab yeh karte hain tasvir mein kamaal/Ustaadon ke hain ustaad Raja Deen Dayal" (In the art of photography, surpassing all, a master of masters is Raja Deen Dayal.)
He has left for us an exquisite photographic record of British India, of a bygone Colonial era influenced by Native Princely India- its picturesque opulence, rich costumes, whiskered nobility, hookah bearers, royal palaces, hunts, and parades, elephant carriages & historic events.
