Category: The Black Star Collection
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.289652

Inscriptions:
Captions: Verso: The leaders of eight hundred million people. Looked to for their leadership by nearly one-fourth of the human race are Fandit Jawaharlal Nehru (left) leader of India?s nationalists, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (right) the man who has unified China and led her magnificent fight against Japan. These two great men have met twice ? once in August 1939 when Jawaharlal [Nehru] visited China?s wartime capital, and again this winter when Generalissimo Chiang [Kai-shek] made his historic visit to India. Chiang [Kai-shek] is shown here in his favourite costume ? the simple robe of the Chinese scholar or business man. [Jawaharlal] Nehru, showing the courtesy of the Far East is also wearing a Chinese costume, [illeg.] retained his Gandhi cap which is made of khadr or homespun.Markings:Verso: The leaders of eight hundred million people. Looked to for their leadership by nearly one-fourth of the human race are Fandit Jawaharlal Nehru (left) leader of India?s nationalists, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (right) the man who has unified China and led her magnificent fight against Japan. These two great men have met twice ? once in August 1939 when Jawaharlal [Nehru] visited China?s wartime capital, and again this winter when Generalissimo Chiang [Kai-shek] made his historic visit to India. Chiang [Kai-shek] is shown here in his favourite costume ? the simple robe of the Chinese scholar or business man. [Jawaharlal] Nehru, showing the courtesy of the Far East is also wearing a Chinese costume, [illeg.] retained his Gandhi cap which is made of khadr or homespun.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: PERSONALITIES / N
Retouching: N