CHINAR SHADE

1. 1900 – Kralyaar Rainawari Srinagar

2. 1900s – Amira kadal bridge Srinagar

3. 1900s – Dalgate Srinagar in early

4. 1903 – A gathering of Kashmiri Pandits

5. 1909 – Vegetable Market In Boats Srinagar Kashmir

Vegetable Market In Boats, Srinagar, Kashmir 1909. The market used to be a hub of activity! Yet an element of calm prevailed! The business was more on faith and the buyer and seller became Partners in the Transaction! Something modern business strives hard to Achieve! One used buy from the same seller and a bond was struck! This Bond would be then passed on their next generation and so on!

6. 1920s – Milkmen bound for the city

7. 1940s – Lal chowk, Srinagar,’; See grass roofs on building

8. 1950 – Hari Singh High Street Srinagar Kashmir

9. 1950s – Woman at the helm, Dal lake

10. 1950s – Bedford vehicle: Srinagar to Gulmarg (mentioned in the front on name plate)

11. 1950s – Srinagar market scene

12. 1951 –  Tanga Adda Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. The Tanga adda in olden times was beside KMDA Adda Lal chowk near telegraph office

13. 1957 – A Tonga in a village.

No traffic, no chaos, no concrete, only serenity

14. 1962 – Carpet manufacturing in Srinagar

15.  1968 – From the dreams True shot not a recreated filmy shot

16.  Srinagar 1970s

People having food in toor (traditonal bowls used for eating food)
“baaya traav fikra ghama, wal batt myondda khemaw “(Brother leave the worries aside, lets have our food)
No worry of who is watching and how we are eating. Where have those carefree and simple days gone !

17. 1970s – Srinagar Boulevard Road

18. 1973 – Face of innocence – Boy on Zaina Kadal bridge, Srinagar

19. 1980s – A Kashmiri Pandit Shopkeeper having Marriage stuff Walnuts and Thaals. Eating plates can be seen inside.

20. 1980s – Lady with Somavar going to serve tea in fields

21. 1980s Srinagar market scene 

22. 1980s – Srinagar street   

23. 1982 Lal Chowk, Srinagar Kashmir; Pladdium cinema hall was on the right

24. 1986 – Selling Waguws (Mats of grass) at Maharaj Ganj Srinagar Kashmir. Waguw was most common basic flooring of all houses. 

25. 1987 Wood carving artist of Kashmir

26. From old times – Ziarat of Makhdoom Sahib

27. Kashmir Floods in 1903

One of the worst floods of Kashmirs history. The second of the great flooding in modern times. Five inches of rain fell between 11th and 17th July and eight inches from 21st to 23rd idem and the river rose to the maximum of R.L. 5200.37 on the 24th July at 2 P.M. The whole valley became one vast expanse of water and fearful loss of life and property and crops occurred. The damages caused to the roads and other Public works alone rose to over three lakhs of rupees.
This was the flood that lead to the first proper scientific approach to control the floods in the valley using the help of British. In 1904, a spill channel was excavated above Srinagar through a swamp rejoining the river at some distance below the city and proved much helpful in protecting Srinagar. Dredging work started in 1907 from Baramulla unto Vular Lake using electricity. In around 1906, came the weir at Chattabal. The flood control work with British help continued for a couple of decades. A Kashmiri poet of that time named Hakim Habibullah went on to write a work titled ‘Sylab Nama’ based on this natural calamity of 1903.