This is perhaps the most emotionally resonant part of the archive. It consists of thousands of cabinet cards and cartes de visite from small-town studios (e.g., "Sharma & Sons, Lahore" or "Bourne & Shepherd, Calcutta").
The is more than just a dusty collection of old photos. It is a resistance against historical amnesia. In a subcontinent prone to rewriting history for political gain, the objective, chemical reality of a silver gelatin print offers a stubborn truth. Gomov India Archive