Kaurs of Yore

The photograph, circa 1930, came in a lot of photographs recently purchased from a second-hand bookstore. It belongs to the family of Major B.S. Virk of 1st Sikh. It is most likely that Mr. Virk was a Major in the 1930s. Source: Punjab Digital Library.

October 9, 1947: Hindu and Sikh women and children arriving in Bombay on the British-India liner Dwarka after their flight from Pakistan. Photo by Keystone/Getty Images.

1947. Punjab. Sikh husband and wife (Amar Kaur & Kartar Singh Sangha) with their children. The husband's younger brother stands in the back. Private collection.

A Kashmiri Sikh woman from the early 1950s. Private collection.

Circa 1960s. Source: Punjab Digital Library.

1959. Dr. Manmohan Singh & Dr. Preetam Kaur. Source: Private collection.

Circa 1960s. Punjab. Inder Singh and his wife, Kanwal Deesh Kaur, with their niece. In the back stands Inder's mother, Jai Kaur. Source: Private collection.

Circa 1970. Punjab. Ratan Kaur. Source: Private collection.

Authors and writers at a meeting of the Panjabi Sahit Sabha in June 1978. Source: Punjab Digital Library.

Circa 1970. Sisters Arvinder Kaur Bedi and Amardeep Kaur during a road trip to Kashmir. Source: Sukhmeet Singh's private collection.