General view of the exterior of St Patrick's School, Karachi

Photograph of of the exterior of St Patrick's School, Karachi in Sind, Pakistan from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections: India Office Series (Volume 46), taken by Michie and Company in c. 1873. This view of the substantial two storey stone building with a small central tower was probably shown at the Vienna Exhibition of that same year. Mission schools were important in India, particularly for the education of girls and women, for those who were at the lower end of the caste system and for technical education. The Imperial Gazetteer of India states, "Much assistance has been given to the cause of female education by mission schools and mission classes for home teaching.

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BAHAWALPUR: Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan, Nawab of Bahawalpur (1862-1899).

Half-length seated carte de visite portrait, a detail of a larger photograph of Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan, Nawab of Bahawalpur by Bourne and Shepherd, c.1870. Bahawalpur, located in Pakistan, was controlled by the descendents of the Daudputra family. Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan (1862-99) succeeded as Nawab of Bahawalpur in 1866. While he was a minor the affairs of state were administered by British and Indian officers. He was created a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India in 1880. Sadiq Muhammad Khan's administration developed a canal system to improve irrigation and established a better public education system.

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Group portrait of female pupils in the European and Indo-European School, Karachi

Group portait of female pupils, with their teacher, in the European and Indo-European School at Karachi in Sind, Pakistan from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections: India Office Series (Volume 46), taken by Michie and Company in c. 1873. This photograph was probably shown at the Vienna Universal Exhibition of the same year. The Imperial Gazetteer of India states, "The special importance attaching to the education of the youth of the domiciled European and Eurasian community has long been recognised by Government...the problem has grown with the increase of the Eurasian population and the more common employment of Europeans in India. The great development of railways, and the establishment of large industrial concerns, such as the cotton mills of Bombay, the jute mills around Calcutta, and the tea plantations in various parts of the country, have called to India an ever-increasing number of European employees, many of whom marry and settle in the country and have to provide education and employment for their children." Female education in India also grew dramatically from the mid-nineteenth century.

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