"Hotel in the Camp"
The Karachi Congress party meeting, held six days after Bhagat Singh was executed on March 23, 1931, was a tense affair.
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Royal Botanical Gardens Peradeniya, Ceylon
These 600 year old gardens are near Kandy.
Originally created in the reign of the Sinhalese King Wickramabahu III during the 14th century, these gardens were improved by his successors and later by the English after their conquest of Kandy.
The Mall, Peshawar, N.W.F.P.
A British-cantonment era boulevard (running through the Peshawar Cantonment/Saddar area), and until recent decades could well be this peaceful and empty.
India Tea Growers Post Card [back]
![India Tea Growers Post Card [back]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/tea-card-back_0.jpg?itok=zMlAOWq1 "India Tea Growers Post Card [back]")
The back of the Mumtaz-i-Mahal postcard, with an advertising message for tea and the ink stamp of the sales agent.
Natives Jetty, Karachi
By the 1920s, Karachi's port had become one of the most commercially significant in the British Empire — by 1910, it was said to already be handling more wheat than any other port in the British Empire.
Madras Club
The Madras Club is a colonial-era gentlemen’s club in Chennai, founded in 1832 as an exclusive European male preserve and now one of India’s oldest surviving social clubs.
Bird eye View of the city Delhi
[Original] This city built by the Emperor Shahjahan in 1627 A.D. [end]
Cherat Hill
Cherat hill’s position gave commanding views over the Peshawar valley and toward Kohat/Indus, which made it strategically useful as well as climatically attractive to colonists.
Fisherman, Ceylon
John & Co., Ceylon was an early 20th‑century commercial postcard and view‑card publisher based in Colombo (and very likely also Kandy), part of the broader trade in photographic and printed views of colonial Ceylon.
Exit of Khyber Pass into Afghanistan
Numerous conqueror's came into the subcontinent through the Khyber Pass, including Darius I of Persia, Alexander the Great, Mahmud of Ghazni, Muhammad of Ghor, Timur (known as Tamerlane in the west), Babur, Nader Shah and Ahmad Shah Durrani.
