Today, Red and Gold Photography photographer Jahangir Khan is on location in and around the Northern Pakistani city of Larkana. Where he has taken this image of a young girl preparing food over a fire.

The Imperial Gazetteer of India describes the town of Larkana as follows: The country surrounding Lārkāna is fertile and populous, and perhaps the finest tract in the whole of the province: The spacious walks, well laid-out gardens, and luxuriant foliage, have gained for Lārkāna the title of the ‘Eden of Sind.’ It is one of the most important grain marts of Sind, and is famous for a variety of rice called sugdāsi. There is a large local traffic in metals, cloth, and leather. The principal manufactures are cloth of mixed silk and cotton, coarse cotton cloth, metal vessels, and leathern goods.

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Today, Red and Gold Photography photographer Jahangir Khan is on location in and around the Northern Pakistani city of Larkana. Where he has taken a series of images of rural life there. In this image, A Pakistani Man carries his harvest through the fertile fields surrounding the city.

The principal crops during rabi are wheat, matter, gram and oil-seeds and in kharif paddy and jawar. In addition to these crops there are subsidiary crops known as zaid rabi, zaid kharif and dobari.

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Today, Red and Gold Photography photographer Jahangir Khan is on location in and around the Northern Pakistani city of Larkana. Where he has taken a series of images of rural life there. In this image, a child diving in rice canal to get relief from the scorching heat.

The historic city of Mohenjo-Daro is located about 30 kilometres in the south of Larkana city, in Dokri taluka, on the right bank of river Indus. Rice canal (seasonal) and Dadu Canal (perennial) pass through the district and irrigate the agricultural fields. Taluka Larkana and Ratodero are famous for Guava orchards. Rice is a major Kharif crop while Rabi crops include wheat, Mustard, Linseed and various kinds of vegetables.

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Today, Red and Gold Photography photographer Jahangir Khan is on location in and around the Northern Pakistani city of Larkana. Where he has taken a series of images of rural life there. In this image, Gypsy women are washing clothes in a canal near Mirokhan Road.

Sindhi is the most widely used language but Thari is also spoken amongst the original inhabitants of Larkana, which shares similarities with the Sindhi language. Sindhi and English are the official languages and Urdu is widely understood. Serraiki is also widely spoken in various parts of Larkana and among the tribes having Serraiki as their principal language or Mother Tongue are Jhatial, Gopang, Laghari, Bhatti,Khuhawar, Khokhar and others.

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Today, Red and Gold Photography photographer Jahangir Khan is on location in and around the Northern Pakistani city of Larkana. Where he has taken a series of images of rural life there. In this image, farmers are harvesting crops

Larkana is surrounded by fertile land in which all kind of fruits and vegetables are cultivated, including potatoes, melons, olives, oranges, peas, carrots, cucumber, mangoes and guava. Some 10 km from the city, sugarcane is cultivated and processed at the sugar mill established in 1990 in Nau Dero village, the birthplace of the former prime minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and where Benazir Bhutto was raised.

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Today, Red and Gold Photography photographer Jahangir Khan is on location in and around the Northern Pakistani city of Larkana. Where he has taken a series of images of rural life there. In this image, an old lady harvests crops in the fields in Pakistan

Larkana is surrounded by fertile land in which all kind of fruits and vegetables are cultivated, including potatoes, melons, olives, oranges, peas, carrots, cucumber, mangoes and guava. Some 10 km from the city, sugarcane is cultivated and processed at the sugar mill established in 1990 in Nau Dero village, the birthplace of the former prime minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and where Benazir Bhutto was raised.

To visit Red and Gold Photography‘s Pakistan Gallery, please click here, to see this image in a larger format, please click here.

Today, Red and Gold Photography photographer Jahangir Khan is on location in and around the Northern Pakistani city of Larkana. Where he has taken this image of an overloaded truck and tractor passing from Shaikh Zed Road.

During British rule Larkana became the headquarters of Larkana District and Larkana Taluka, and for a time was part of the Bombay Presidency of British India. The city lay on the route of the North-Western Railway, and the population according to the 1901 census of India was 14,543. The name was taken from the Larik (caste) as Larkana, at that time the chief of the caste was Sardar Saeed Nawaz Larik.

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Today, Red and Gold Photography photographer Jahangir Khan is on location in and around the Northern Pakistani city of Larkana. Where he has taken a series of images of rural life there. We will be featuring these over the coming days.

Larkana is the fourth largest city in the north-western part of Sindh Province, Pakistan, and is located within Larkana District. In August 2000 Larkana celebrated its hundred years of existence. It is located on the south bank of the Ghar canal, 40 miles south of Shikarpur town, and 36 miles north-east of Mehar.

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Today, Red and Gold Photography continue to travel in Thailand. Were we visited a village inhabited by Karen tribes people, in  Northern Thailand.

Kawthoolei is the Karen name for the state that the Karen people of Burma have been trying to establish since the late 1940s. The precise meaning of the name is disputed even by the Karen themselves; possible interpretations include Flowerland and Land without evil, although, according to Martin Smith in Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity, it has a double meaning, and can also be rendered as the Land Burnt Black; hence the land that must be fought for. Kawthoolei roughly approximates to present-day Kayin State, some parts of Pegu and Tanintharyi Division, although parts of the Burmese Ayeyarwady River delta with Karen populations have sometimes also been claimed. Kawthoolei as a name is a relatively recent invention, penned during the time of former Karen leader Ba U Gyi, who was assassinated around the time of Burma’s independence from Britain.

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Today, Red and Gold Photography continue to travel in Thailand. Were we visited a village inhabited by Karen tribes people, in  Northern Thailand.

The Karen languages, members of the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan language family, consist of three mutually unintelligible branches: Sgaw, Pwo, and Pa’o. Karenni (Red Karen) and Kayan belong to the Sgaw branch. The Karen languages are almost unique among the Tibeto-Burman languages in having a Subject Verb Object word order; other than Karen and Bai, Tibeto-Burman languages feature a Subject Object Verb order. This anomaly is likely due to the influence of neighboring Mon and Tai languages.

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