Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: SINGH, Harmit
Event Date: 1971
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.063621

Inscriptions:
Recto, in orange pencil: [two lines coming from each corner of the image leading to the edges of the frame]; handwritten in black pencil: 0-20; Verso: handwritten in blue ink: Aftermath of India Pakistan War; typed adhered label: Aftermath of India Pakistan War / 5. Piled into the hold of a cargo vessel, West Pakistani soldiers embark / form [sic] Chittagong for the 36-hour passage across the Bay of Bengal and up / the Hooghly River to Calcutta. Four thousand of the 93,000 prisoners taken / by the Indian army in what is now Bangledesh [sic] – and blamed for innumerable / atrocities – they may be safer in India. But until there is a political / settlement between the two governments, they will remain locked up in mil- / itary prison camps. / Credit:: Harmit Singh-Black Star; handwritten in orange pencil: 0-2; handwritten in pencil: [illegible] / [line] / ilgeible / [illegible]; 4 13//16 x 33 // 16; stamped in black ink: HARMIT SINGH / BLACK STAR; handwritten in pencil: 41 / [line] / 199

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BANGLADESH / 1971 INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR REFUGEES
Retouching: N