page_title: St Colm's College
hierarchical_section_title: St Colm's College
caption_attribution_description: English: 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
context_page_description: St Colm's College was established in Edinburgh in 1894 as a missionary training college for women, with Annie Hunter Small as its first principal.
  In August 2010, the College's property would eventually be sold off after the Church of Scotland determined it could no longer afford to maintain it.
context_section_description: St Colm's College was established in Edinburgh in 1894 as a missionary training college for women, with Annie Hunter Small as its first principal.
  In August 2010, the College's property would eventually be sold off after the Church of Scotland determined it could no longer afford to maintain it.
caption: In India, missions work with high caste women often happened within zenanas (women's quarters)
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