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Illustration of an Indian woman holding a flower
Eastern Encounters: The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse
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Hafiz Abdul Karim (1863-1909) and Sheikh Muhammad Bakhsh

1887-88

RCIN 2914332

Abdul Karim (left) and Muhammad Bakhsh (right) were two of the many Indian servants in Queen Victoria’s Household.Their Indian-style uniform was embroidered with Queen Victoria’s cypher ‘VRI’ (Victoria Regina Imperatrix), the ‘imperatrix’ of which was added after she became Queen-Empress of India in 1877.
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