The collection
Image Archive
Very few images of Khudiram Bose exist. What survives in quantity is not photography but reproduction — the painted and printed portraits through which a largely unphotographed teenager became one of the most recognisable faces in Bengal.
Collection 01
The Portrait Archive
Each of the images below is a later reproduction rather than a photograph taken from life. They are catalogued here as objects of popular commemoration — evidence of how Khudiram Bose was remembered, rather than direct evidence of how he looked.
Elsewhere in this archive
Images held on other pages
Each chapter of this archive holds its own image, catalogued in place alongside the history it belongs to. No image appears on more than one page.
Plate 01 — Photograph
The full-length photograph of Khudiram Bose as a teenager, and the most widely reproduced image of him.
Plate 02 — Photographic portrait
A studio-style head-and-shoulders portrait, reproduced continuously since the early twentieth century.
Plate 03 — Modern illustration
A present-day illustrated portrait built on the repeated archival photograph.
Plate 04 — Painting
The painted portrait by Haripada Das, held at Mahajati Sadan, Kolkata.
