Section One
Katherine Welford leaving for India in 1932 (Katherine Prentice)
Spar-fighting competition on board ship (Getty)
The Elgins arrive in India, 1894 (The Earl of Elgin)
A ‘chummery’ in Mahalaxmi (Charles Arthur)
The five ADCs of the Viceroy, Lord Elgin, in full dress (The Earl of Elgin)
The Hon. Lilah Wingfield, just arrived for the Coronation Durbar of 1903 (Jessica Douglas-Home)
Lord Curzon on his way to the Coronation Durbar of 1903 (Charles Arthur)
Henry Babington Smith with his staff (The Earl of Elgin)
Lady Elgin seated in a silver tonjon (The Earl of Elgin)
A viceregal camp in Jodhpur (The Earl of Elgin)
A viceregal picnic (The Earl of Elgin)
Lady Elisabeth Bruce and Henry Babington Smith before their engagement (The Earl of Elgin)
A hunt breakfast of the Bangalore hounds in 1935 (Thomas Courtenay-Clack)
Marian Atkins on her horse ’Kitty’ (Malcolm Chase)
Hounds transported to the meet by camel cart (Charles Arthur)
A day at the races, Ootacamund (Helène Reade)
Annette Bowen in 1932 (Toby Garfitt)
Annette Bowen in Daphne at the Royal Madras Yacht Club Regatta (Toby Garfitt)
Annette Bowen at the Gymkhana Races in 1935 (Toby Garfitt)
Section Two
Mary McLeish with her fiancé Nigel Gribbon (Mary Gribbon)
Katherine Welford, aged twenty (Katherine Prentice)
Jean Hilary, during a 1929 weekend with friends at Puri (Nicholas Thompson)
The wedding of Lady Elisabeth Bruce and Henry Babington Smith, Simla, September 1898 (The Earl of Elgin)
The view from Observatory Hill, Simla (The Earl of Elgin)
Simla amateur dramatics (Helène Reade)
Amateur dramatics at Viceregal Lodge in the 1890s (The Earl of Elgin)
A picnic by the Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir (Nicholas Thompson)
A walk in the hills (Simon Durnford)
Hut 102A in Gulmarg, rented by the Lloyd family (Mary Lloyd)
The finals of a Gilgit polo match (Nick Phillips)
The Kadur Club cricket teams at Chickmugalur, 1910 (Thomas Courtenay-Clack)
Florence (‘Flossie’) Ross (Caroline Seville)
Lieutenant Leslie Germain Lavie (Caroline Seville)
Grace Trotter (Charles Arthur)
Tiger shooting from an elephant (Charles Arthur)
A bullock cart for use on roads (Charles Arthur)
Bethea Field and her mother (Simon Durnford)
Bethea Field (Simon Durnford)
Violet Field (Malcolm Acheson)
Jim and Violet in their courting days (Malcolm Acheson)
Arthur de Coetlogon Williams (Simon Durnford)
Section Three
Lilah Wingfield’s photograph taken on the road to the Khyber Pass (Jessica Douglas-Home)
Leila Blackwell mounted on a yak on an excursion from Gilgit (Nick Phillips)
Mary Lloyd in a doolie (Mary Lloyd)
Rosemary Cotesworth and William Redpath leaving the church after their wedding (Andrew Redpath)
Iris Butler aged seventeen (Susan Batten)
Gervas Portal in his ‘lungee’ (Susan Batten)
Iris Butler on her wedding day (Susan Batten)
Billy Fremlin on her wedding day (Thomas Courtenay-Clack)
Ralph Fremlin on safari (Thomas Courtenay-Clack)
‘The Smoking Concert’, held in the Durbar Hall, Mercara, in 1910 (Thomas Courtenay-Clack)
Pam Fremlin arriving at the Bangalore Hunt Breakfast in 1935 (Thomas Courtenay-Clack)
A meet of the Bangalore hounds at 4-Mile Old Madras Road, August 1935 (Thomas Courtenay-Clack)
Sheila Hingston just before she came out to India in September 1929 (Helène Reade)
George Blackwood Reade (Helène Reade)
Greenwood, the Hingston house in Ootacamund (Helène Reade)
Gladys Hingston entertaining in Madras (Helène Reade)
The Opening Meet of the Ooty Hunt (Helène Reade)
A wedding party at Poona, 1906 (Simon Durnford)
The Elgin wedding cake (The Earl of Elgin)