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77 – The Forest Ranger of Jeypore, Orissa
My father, Shankar Alva (right) with Game, a wild Bull. Jeypore, Koraput (now Orissa) 1928 Image and Text contributed by Jayakar Alva, Bangalore My father Shankar Alva graduated in B.Sc from the...
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78 – She left everything behind in Scotland to an unknown future in India
My Grandmother, Sydney Gorrie, on her wedding day. Lahore (now Pakistan). December 1923 Image and Text contributed by Janet MacLeod Trotter, United Kingdom This is a photo of my Scottish maternal...
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93 – He designed motorbikes, served the British Army and worked in a circus...
My grandfather, Captain Glyndon Ralph O’Leary, fondly known as Mike. Location – probably Sibi, Balochistan Province (Now Pakistan). 1941 Image and Text contributed by Shaun Waller & Oonagh...
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98 – A spring in our lives
Soni and I. Faridabad. 1982 Image and Text contributed by Adit Dave, Delhi In 1975 my family and I moved to Delhi from Assam. After college I began working with the Government of India in various...
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134 – The last European principal of a forest college
My parents, brother and I at age three, at the Madras Forest Academy, Coimbatore. Tamil Nadu. 1940 Text and Image contributed by Chris Longrigg, UK My father J.H Longrigg (seated in Black) was brought...
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139 – Impressions of a Memsahib
My great-grandmother, May Stokes. Vallam, Tanjore District, Tamil Nadu. Circa 1895 Image and Text contributed by Teresa Stokes, Ireland My great grandmother, May Forence Stokes (nee Fuller) was born in...
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