Hyderabad, The Char Minar
Architecture
Taj Mahal Hotel. Bombay.
The Mexican Nobel Prize-winning poet Octavio Paz has a nice description of coming upon the Taj Mohal Hotel by ship for the first time in the early 1950s: "Behind the monument [India Gate], floating in the warm air, was a silhouette of the Taj Mahal
Galta Tank Jaipur
Galtaji is an ancient set of Hindu temples built into rocky hills near Jaipur, nicely captured in this rich early collotype by one of the first all-India postcard publishers.
Benares, Temple at Ramnagar
A very nicely hand-tinted postcard, with the red used to seize the eye, setting the temple off against an uneven, unreal application of blue on the terraces below - but who cares?
Compare to Tuck's Temple at Ramnager.
Humayon's [Humayun's] Tomb, Delhi
![Humayon's [Humayun's] Tomb, Delhi](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/humayunds-tomb-delhi-signed.jpg?itok=98UGZcXV "Humayon's [Humayun's] Tomb, Delhi")
The Mexican Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz (1914-1998) served as his country's Ambassador to India in the 1960s, and just before he died left behind a memoir of the country, In Light of India (1995) which has a beautiful description of Humayun's
Elphinstone College and Sassoon Library. Bombay.
Elphinstone College, Mumbai is one of the oldest colleges in the University of Mumbai system.
The Madras Club
The grand old building of the Madras Club, with the banqueting hall in the center. Founded in 1832, the "Ace of Club" as it was known was the second oldest in India after the Bengal Club.
The Deccan College, Poona
The third oldest college in India, this Gothic building and campus was opened in 1868 and has since become a leading post-graduate research institute.
Mylapore Temple and Tank - Madras
The Kapaleeshwarar Temple outside Chennai dedicated to lord Shiva is about 1,400 years old and this view is very similar today. Note the people in the foreground.
Victoria Terminus G.I.P. Ry. [Railway] Bombay.
![Victoria Terminus G.I.P. Ry. [Railway] Bombay.](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/victoria-terminal_0.jpg?itok=uukFr1bb "Victoria Terminus G.I.P. Ry. [Railway] Bombay.")
An almost dreamlike view of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus), better known by its local acronym CST or VT, a historic railway station that serves as the headquarters of the Central Railways in India and now one of the busiest
