British colonials at play in 1930s India

British colonials at play in 1930s India

I love looking at old images – especially of India. This particular image comes from a large album from the 1930s that features scores of fascinating photographs of unnamed British colonials doing what British colonials did in those days – vale hunting, pig-sticking, show jumping, hunting astride elephants, and attending formal dinners and lawn parties. The album was lovingly kept and many of the images are professional photographs – but they didn’t think to mention who they were, unfortunately. So we can only imagine…