Hamilton Studio: the first 20 years after Partition

Description

A university is set to preserve digitally more than 20,000 pictures, prints and documents from the post-partition period in India.

Led by Coventry University, two decades of India's history, from 1947, will be digitised from a collection housed at Hamilton Studios in Mumbai.

The collection contains more than 600,000 objects from nearly a 100 years of Indian heritage - including partition, which ended two centuries of British colonial rule and divided the subcontinent into two separate nations: India and Pakistan.

The project will specifically preserve items - including passport photographs and invoices - for the period up to 1967.