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Fakirs, a group of “Trinidadian ascetic ritual specialists”as described by Alexander Rocklin in his book The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad, are shown in this albumen print from the Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs.

Fakirs, a group of “Trinidadian ascetic ritual specialists”as described by Alexander Rocklin in his book The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad, are shown in this albumen print from the Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs.