Nov 11, 2002 - Sale 1951

Sale 1951 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 1,725
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
V. VEEVERS ALLAHABAD. 1930.
40 1/2x26 inches. British India Press, Bombay.
Condition A-: foxing along top edge.
The ancient city of Allahabad was ceded to the British in 1801. In 1920 the city was the site of the Indian National Conference at which Mahatma Ghandi first proposed his plan of nonviolent resistance as a means to achieve independence, and the city remained a center of the Indian Independence movement.