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Article: Capturing Kathmandu.(GEOGRAPHICAL ARCHIVE)
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- Geographical
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Little is known about Captain Clarence Comyn Taylor, other than that he served in the military, medical and nursing services of the East India Company during the latter half of the 19th century. However, photographs he took of the Kathmandu Valley between 1862 and 1865 are among the oldest in the Royal Geographical Society's archives. Along with images of some of the valley's most sacred spiritual sites, Taylor captured aspects of the region's diverse cultural landscape and even managed to photograph the infamous dictator Jang Bahadur Kunwar, who engineered a bloody coup in 1846, securing political power for the so-called Rana dynasty for the next century
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