Old photos/drawings of India

A lot of inspiring imagery as old photos of India is now accessible online. Due to copyright expiry, making available the archives and also due to online sale of old photos, a lot can be found online. Ofcourse these will not replace a photo print, which will be much more detailed. None the less, the sizes now available to see online is good enough.

I share a list of resources that I have found useful. If you know of more, please do share in the comments.

Temples and Archaeological sites

British library | Archaeological survey of India (pre-independence) survey photos from reports and many other photos. Sometimes you will have to try different spellings or larger regional name to be able to locate a photo of a place you are interested in. This link is an example of Eklingji old photo.

American Institute of Indian Studies | Encyclopedia of Indian Temple Architecture, photos and drawings
A pretty exhaustive archive of digitized slides/photos published in the Encyclopedia of Indian Temple Architecture Volumes (and also the ones not published I think). This was the enormous work done by M. A. Dhaky and his team surveying and documenting temples across north and south India.

General country and people scenes including architecture

These blogs regularly scoop out and share photos available anywhere in the internet, including ebay (!), online museums and the British library.

Blog1: Old Photos sourced from ebay, British library, online museums etc
TIP Explore this blog by the list of categories (it's a long list)

Blog2: Indian Art sourced from ebay, British library, online museums etc
TIP Again, as above, explore this blog by the list of categories (it's a real long list)