Images of life in the British Raj - in pictures

An unknown group of people pose for a photograph during a tennis party Photograph: RCAHMS/PA

A group of washermen at a dhobi ghat (quay), Kolkata Photograph: RCAHMS/PA

A riverside scene with bathers, looking north from Chatulal's ghat towards Ram Chandra Goenka's Zenana (ladies) ghat, Kolkata Photograph: RCAHMS/PA

A hairdresser gives a Hindustani pudding bowl haircut, on Strand Road South, Kolkata Photograph: RCAHMS/PA

An unknown woman and two men pose for photographs in front a house and a display of potted plants Photograph: RCAHMS/PA

Buildings on the south-east side of the Lal Dighi (BBD Bagh, formerly Dalhousie Square), Kolkata, lit at night for the 1912 British royal visit Photograph: RCAHMS/PA

A Muhurram procession, with a taziya held aloft, passes through a crowded street in Kolkata Photograph: RCAHMS/PA

Sadhus seated near the ghats in Kolkata Photograph: RCAHMS/PA

Ships docked at Chandpal ghat in Kolkata Photograph: RCAHMS/PA

Two men stick dance, with an onlooking crowd, in Maidan, Kolkata Photograph: RCAHMS/PA