Name: Anirban Mukhopadhyay
Affiliation History: Kalyani University, India ; University of Kalyani, India Bonhams : SIKH WARS HARDINGE (CHARLES STEWART) Eight views
Lot 44 SIKH WARS HARDINGE (CHARLES STEWART) Eight views
HARDINGE (CHARLES STEWART) Eight views, tinted lithographs, images approximately 285 x 372mm., [Thomas M'Lean, 1847] (8)
Hardinge (18221894), was the eldest son of Henry Hardinge (17851856), Governor-General of India, and father of Charles Hardinge (1858-1944), the later Viceroy. He was private secretary to his father when governor-general in the second half of the 1840s, also the period of the Sikh Wars. Hardinge visited Kashmir (then in Sikh hands), with John Nicholson (18211857). The views (each with its letterpress decription preserved), include several of positions important to the First Anglo-Sikh War of 1845-1846: Outpost of Rhodawala; Hill Fort of Gulab Sing; Wulur Lake; Passage of the River Chunab; Bij Beara; Kote Kangra; City of Kashmir. Mosque of Shah Hamadan; Delhi. Palace of the King. See illustration overleaf.