Photograph of an south Asian woman standing by a circular pond as she holds an urn above her left shoulder. She faces the viewer, smiling. 

This photograph shows the people who lived in the regions of India that were visited by Prince Edward of Wales during his tour of the country in 1921 and 1922.

On October 26 1921, Edward, Prince of Wales left Portsmouth to begin a tour of the Indian Subcontinent and Japan that covered 41,000 miles, lasting 8 months. Prince Edward spent four months in India, travelling from Bombay to Calcutta and then from Madras to Karachi. As the British Empire's Ambassador, the Prince visited India on behalf of his father King George V, to thank the nation for the essential role it had played during the First World War. Moreover, the visit was intended to strengthen links between Britain and its Empire at a time of increasing calls for Indian independence.