The K. L. Nursey album, or the Collections of Photographs of Old Congress Party: KL Nursey, is a compilation of documentary photographs captured by an anonymous person. It contains 245 black-and-white photographs that cover the Civil Disobedience Movement of India. The album offers evidence that the movement involved counts of ordinary citizens, mostly women, of the then Bombay, who acted out of their own accord through an organization called Desh Sevika Sangh and not entirely through Mahatma Gandhi's prod.[1] The album is currently with the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts (AFA).[2]
The identity of K. L. Nursey is not known. According to historians, they could be Navin Khandwala, a Congress activist; the man who commissioned the photographs; or the person who curated and collated it into the album.[1] According to Annalisa Mansukhani, Nursey could have been a staffer of The Times of India.[3]
In October 2025, a few of the photos from the album were showcased in Durham, North Carolina.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bombay’s other rebels. Mumbai Mirror.
- ↑ Through an unknown lens: A new visual project at CSMVS revisits Mumbai’s role in India’s freedom struggle. Mid-day(14 October 2025).
- ↑ Watching History Unfold: Photography’s French Connections in India. asapconnect.in.
- ↑ “Disobedient Subjects: Bombay 1930–31” Opens at CDS on October 30 | Center for Documentary Studies. documentarystudies.duke.edu(23 October 2025).