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Muttra on the Jumna by William Simpson, 1865.

Muttra on the Jumna by William Simpson, 1865.
* Moving Here catalogue reference (V&A) 1138-1869

  

West Indian plantations

The plantations established by the English in the Caribbean in the 17th century required a huge supply of cheap labour which was supplied by slaves. After the abolition of slavery in the 19th century, thousands of indentured workers from India arrived to work in the British colonies at the request of the planters.

* West Indian plantations - documents and photographs

William Simpson - paintings of nineteenth-century India

In the 1850s, the artist William Simpson produced more than 200 watercolours of India vividly recording people and places.

* Paintings of nineteenth-century India

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