Title

'The Hindoo Mother', c1860.Artist: EJ Portbury

Caption

'The Hindoo Mother', c1860. When the infant of a poor Hindoo (Hindu) dies, the mother carries it in her arms to the Ganges, on the banks of which she lays it for some time on a piece of mat, waiting for the return of the tide to wash away the body. The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began in the town of Meerut and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions across many regions of Company-ruled north-central India. The rebellion posed a considerable threat to British power in that region and it was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20 June 1858. The rebellion is also often known as the Indian Mutiny, the Sepoy Mutiny, the Great Rebellion, the Revolt of 1857 and occasionally, in India, as the First War of Independence. From The History of the Indian Mutiny, volume VII, by Charles Ball, published by The London Printing & Publishing Company (c1860).
The Print Collector collection

Date

1860

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C43_470

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,1Mb (4,6Mb) / 11,3in x 17,2in / 3386 x 5169 (300dpi)

Keywords

river people child children event India Asia family religious Indian baby babies country religion crime geography mother death Hinduism kneeling motherhood location century sadness rebellion concept Ganges Hindu river ganges weeping B&W bereavement MONOCHROME engraving mum publication dead body 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector British Empire British Raj geographical feature Great Sepoy Rebellion 1857 Hindoostan Indian Mutiny 1857 mutiny Raj TGN Charles engraving The History of the Indian Mutiny The Raj H Ball H Melville;Melville Charles Ball EJ Portbury Portbury EJ Charles Ball engraving