Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: HARDY, Bert
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.109003

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Kashmir; handwritten: Asia / Kashmir; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped: COPYRIGHT / HULTON PRESS LTD / NOT TO BE REPRODUCED / WITHOUT PERMISSION; stamped: Please credit PICTURE POST / photograph by BERT HARDY; typed label: 4. Indian army camps are dotted about Jammu and some 8,000 troops / are now stationed there under General Chaurdhuri. The Indian army / moved in in 1947 with paratroops and jet planes to fight the wild / tribesmen who invaded the country. The Indian army, legacy of / two centuries of British rule, is the most efficient in the East.

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