Gopal Kharbanda at Dunfermline Teacher Training College

Category

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Item no

21915

Title

Gopal Kharbanda (Bachan Kharbanda's father) at Dunfermline Teacher Training College - 1st April 1931

Description

A group of men line up in two rows for a group portrait in front of a stone building. The front row crouch in front of the back row who are standing. All the men are wearing white t-shirts and white trousers except for a man standing in the centre of the back row who is wearing a jacket and tie. (Gopal Kharbanda is standing towards the middle of the back row.)

Date

1931

Size

8.0 x 13.0 cm

Type

Photograph

This item was digitised as part of the Whose Town? project, an educational resource for schools. Unique archival material was gathered together to create a snapshot of a person's life at a particular point in Edinburgh's history.
Gopal Singh Kharbanda, came to train in Scotland in 1928 at the Dunfermline College of Physical Education. When he returned to India, he organised the first Colleges for Physical Education and Scouting in India. Mr Gopal Kharbandas experience in Scotland led him to encourage his son Bachan to study in Scotland. Always a man of action, Bachans father cycled around Europe in the 1950s lecturing on physical education. He also came to Glasgow when Bachan was living there and helped set up the Glasgow Indian Association.

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Clothing and dress > Garments > Trousers

Education > Educational facilities > Universities and colleges

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Places > Scotland > Fife