Keywords: High caste women, Harkua, India, ca. 1915 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-37).jpg en <br> High caste women Harkua India ca 1915 Black and white lantern slide showing a group of women of a high caste in Harkua village in the Gopalganj district of Bihar India Three women stand and two crouch on the ground All wear saris and conspicuous jewellery The caste system in India was a method of dividing up Hindu society according to role If these women are high caste they may be members of the Brahmin group the priest or scholar class The caption to the slide reads High caste women in zenana at Harkua village in Gopalganj A zenana literally meaning pertaining to women was the part of the household reserved for women in Muslim south Asian households These zenanas would be visited by the wives of missionaries as part of mission work This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India Bihar and Orissa and Nepal Photographer Unknown Filename IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-37 tif Coverage date 1910/1920 Subject unesco Indigenous peoples; Ethnic groups Part of collection International Mission Photography Archive ca 1860-ca 1960 Part of subcollection Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity University of Edinburgh U K ca 1900-ca 1940s Repository name Centre for the Study of World Christianity Archival file Volume3/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-37 tif Geographic subject city or populated place Harkua Repository address The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity New College Mound Place Edinburgh EH1 2LX United Kingdom Geographic subject country India Format aacr2 lantern slides 8 2 x 8 2cm Geographic subject continent Asia Rights Contact the repository for details Part of series Regions Beyond Missionary Union India captioned lantern slides CSCNWW33/OS14 Repository email divinity-CSWC ed ac uk Date created 1910/1920 Publisher of the digital version University of Southern California Libraries Subject aat genre group portraits Format aat lantern slides; photographs Geographic subject state Bihar Access conditions http //www ed ac uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources Geographic subject populated places File CSCNWW33/OS14/37 Subject lcsh Women; Hinduism; Castes and tribes of India 1910/1920 date created author http //digitallibrary usc edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78253 PD-old-70-1923 Magic lantern images Images from USC Digital Library uploaded by Fæ International Mission Photography Archive ca 1860-ca 1960 Gopalganj District Women of Bihar |