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Posted on: 29 June 2012
Elephant House, Rampur - 1911
Photograph of a group of elephants lined up in a compound at Rampur in Uttar Pradesh, taken by an unknown photographer in c.1911, from the Nawab of Rampur's presentation album. The album was presented to the India Office by the Festival of Empire in November 1911. The Nawab of Rampur, Hamid Ali Khan (1896-1930), was one of the exhibitors at the Festival of Empire exhibition, held at Crystal Palace to mark George V's coronation. Hamid Ali Khan organised an extensive rebuilding programme which was carried out by W.C. Wright, the Chief Engineer. Wright's architecture synthesises elements from Islamic, Hindu and Victorian Gothic, known as Indo-Saracenic.
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a very sorry looking lot of elephants
Wonderful! Great picture, Thanks for sharing Faiq.
However, there were special elephants, one of them finds mention: "For, they said, this elephant was one of those who fought on the side of Porus against Alexander; and, as it had made a brave fight, Alexander dedicated it to the Sun. And it had, they say, gold rings around its tusks or horns, whichever you call them, and an inscription was on them written in Greek, as follows : 'Alexander the son of Zeus dedicates Ajax to the Sun.'" ( Philostratus, 'Life of Apollonius', BOOK II, 12).