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.2005.063625

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, stamped: HARMIT SINGH / BLACK STAR; stamped: 788 5; handwritten: Aftermath of India-Pakistan War; attached inscription, typed: 5. Piled into the hold of a cargo vessel, West Pakistani soldiers embark / from 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.Recto, [no inscriptions]; Verso, stamped in black ink: HARMIT SINGH / BLACK STAR; handwritten in blue ink: Aftermath of India-Pakistan War; stamped in black ink: 788 5; adhered typed label: 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 – and blamed for innumerable / atrocities – they may be safer in India. But until there is a political / settlemant [sic] between the two governments, they will remain locked up in mil- / itary prison camps.

Tagasauris Keywords: Aerial View; Crowd; Day; Displaced person; Face; Full-Length Portrait; Group; Group of people; Group of people; Indoors; Male; No Photostyle; Refugee; Shirt; Sitting; Turban; Unrest, conflicts and war
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BANGLADESH / 1971 INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR REFUGEES
Retouching: N