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India's First Selfie..
When Maharaja Bir Chandra Manikya (r. 1862 – 1896) decided to freeze a moment in time spent with his queen, he decided to take a portrait of the royal couple would be an apt memento. This is the picture of the Tripura royals taken circa 1880. While the Maharaja placed his right arm around his wife’s shoulde, notive his left hand clutching something. It is a lever to the long wire control that operated the camera’s shutter. When he pulled the lever, he took what is one of the earliest known self- portrait or selfies by an Indian.
An enthusiastic photographer, he was the first king in India to organize an annual photographic exhibition in his palace. More than 100 years after his death, the Maharaja's Foto ka Karkhana, a fully equipped studio, came to light in Madho Niwas, inside the palace.
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