The process begins with collecting sap from coconut or palm flowers as these men are doing. Fresh sap, known as 'Neera,' is initially sweet, lukewarm, and non-alcoholic and collected in small pots attached beneath sliced unopened palm flowers.
A sanyasi, also spelled sannyasi, refers to a Hindu ascetic or religious renunciant who has given up worldly possessions and attachments to pursue spiritual goals. The word sanyasi has its roots in Sanskrit.
A fine portrait by M.V. Dhurandhar of a Gujarati broker. Gujrati brokers played a pivotal role in Bombay's commercial development during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Nusserwanjee & Co. was a prominent business enterprise in Karachi during the British colonial period, owned by the Parsi Nusserwanjee family.
Postmarked January 30, 1909, mailed to E.G. Joeloor [sp?] Esq., Chapel House, Chapel St. , Camborn, Cornwall, England with this message: "How would you like to go around the promenade like these two kids. Eh? Did you get the money alright? I hope so.
By 1899, Karachi had become the largest wheat and cotton exporting port in South Asia. The port's significance in wheat exports grew rapidly, and by 1910, Karachi handled greater quantities of wheat than any other port in the British Empire.
A thematically most unusual postcard.
Mowbray's Road in Madras (now Chennai) was named after George Mowbray, who arrived in Madras in 1771. Originally a bullock cart track, it was acquired by George Mowbray in the late 18th century and led to Mowbray's garden house, which became the
A very early Tuck's postcard of India, and likely among the earliest of Darjeeling. Made from an albumen photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, whose credit is visible on the bottom right of the photograph.
![Tagore [Silk]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/tagore-silk.jpg?itok=LiKDYsxe "Tagore [Silk]")
On the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore's birthday on May 7th, a very rare silk postcard of the great writer. The image is printed on silk, which is them stretched over and pasted on cardboard.
