The gods expected him to make a temple

This is a picture of my paternal ancestor, Seth Ram Gopal Malani, most likely taken in the late 1890s. We conjecture that this photograph was taken by the Raja Deendayal and Sons studio like most of the pictures within our family from this time.

The Anglo Indian men who escorted millions of refugees to safety

Image and Narrative contributed by Deborah Nixon, Sydney My family has a history of having lived in India for four, or possibly 5 generations- they were all Railways people. Both my grandmother and great grandmother were buried in Bhusawal. My father Leslie Nixon, was born in Agra in 1925, schooled in Mussoorie, trained with the […]