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Description: | Photograph of Boer prisoner camps in Bhimtal, from the Macnabb Collection (Col James Henry Erskine Reid): Album of Indian views, taken by Lawrie & company in 1899. This is a distant view of the camps in Bhimtal were Boer prisoners were transported after the Second Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902. There were two Boer wars, (first in 1880-81) both between the British and the settlers of Dutch origin, called Boers, in South Africa that put an end to the two independent republics that they had founded.
Bhim Tal (Bhim Lake) is situated 22 km from Nainital in the Kumaon Hills. This area of Kumaon came under British rule after the Anglo-Nepal War (1814-16) and Nainital became the summer capital of the colonial administration of the province. The Bhimtal lake is named after Bhima, one of the Pandava Brothers, from the Indian epic poem the Mahabharata. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Medicine And Healthcare Science And Technology Architecture War And Conflict Sanatoriums | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Lawrie and Company, G.W. | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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