A 19th Century Photograph of the Lingaraj Temple Complex in Bhubaneswar
Ramakanta Samantaray and Sailen Routray
This is perhaps one of the first photographic images of the Lingaraj temple complex by an Indian photographer taken from a vantage point near the Uttareswar Temple. The photographer is the Bengali indologist and historian Rajendra Lal Mitra (1824-1891).
He was also one the early photography enthusiasts of India. His two volume ‘Antiquities of Orissa’ (published in 1875 and 1880) remains a landmark of architectural history and is still in print.
The fieldwork for this book took place in 1868-69. The photograph provided above must have been taken during this period of time.
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Brilliant.. Kudos to you, for you have been collecting and providing information on early Bhubaneswar and on contribution of Rajendra Lal Mitra in its study.
ReplyDeleteThanks. We had done this as a collective work, as part of a public art project around six years back.
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