The Pakistani poet Daud Kamal (1935-1987) has a poem entitled Water-Carrier:
More patches on his clothes
than on the empty goatskin
slung across his shoulder.
Like the others
he waits his turn
at the Municipal tap.
Twice a day
he delivers water
free
A very popular image, also published in a hand-colored version by D. Macopolo & Co.
Postmarked with no message at the Sea Post Office, likely Bombay May 6, 1905 and sent to Miss Adelaide McConway (sp?), 252 Bishop St., Montreal, Canada.
Among the earliest of Fred Bremner's Kashmir postcards, note how carefully the scene has been composed for what would have been a large format albumen shot during a trip he made about 1903: the man seated below the shed, the donkey cart on the road,
Note the title, which attempts to justify the nude image as some sort of ethnographic study.
Hector Bolitho, the biographer who spent time in Pakistan in the early 1950s researching his book Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan (1954) wrote this about the Shalimar Gardens:
"While I was in Lahore I made a habit of rising at five o'clock each morning
When NWFP [now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa] was created in 1901, a legal framework (NWFP Law and Justice Regulation VII) was enacted to set up judicial institutions for the new province under a Judicial Commissioner, placing the province’s highest judicial
The Karachi Congress party meeting, held six days after Bhagat Singh was executed on March 23, 1931, was a tense affair.
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.
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.
Maharaja’s College, Mysore is one of the oldest and most influential centres of higher education in southern India, closely tied to the making of the University of Mysore and to the Wadiyar dynasty’s education policy.
