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Clive Street, Calcutta

[Original caption] Clive Street, Calcutta.

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Colaba Causeway, Bombay.

The Colaba Causeway, now known as Bhagat Singh Road, was opened in 1838 and connected Colaba and what was known as Old Woman's Island with the mainland of Bombay.

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A popular image of Commercial Street in Bangalore by one of its most popular studios run by M. C. H. Doveton. Note that the poster on the left has the word "War" readable which suggests it is from around the first World War I period.

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Dharumtalla [Dharmatala] Road, Calcutta

Dharmatala (Dharumtalla) Road, now Lenin Sarani in central Kolkata, is one of the busiest thoroughfares in Kolkata. Its original name means "holy street."

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The Raja Bazaar (Main Street) of Rawalpindi City

A rich bazaar view by a little known publisher once based in Peshawar whose wide variety of postcards of Punjab and NWFP is possibly unrivaled in the region during the early 20th century. Moorli Dhur & Sons of Amballa, and H.A.

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Native Quarter, Null Bazaar, Bombay

[Original caption] Native Quarter, Null Bazaar, Bombay. One of the principal highways, is typical of the many animated thoroughfares of this busy city.

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Empress Market Camp, Karachi

[Verso] Published specially for the S.J. Co-operative Society, Karachi Sole Agent for this view throughout India

[Original caption] The Empress Market, the principal market of Karachi, is situated on the Preedy Street in Sadar Bazaar.

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The Bazaar, Delhi

A hand-coloured postcard of Delhi by one of the earliest London-based publishers of Indian postcards.

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The Bazaar, Leh

Probably one of the earliest if not the earliest postcard of Leh, capital of the former Kingdom of Ladakh. Little is known about R. E. Shorter, a photographer with offices in Sialkot, Punjab, on the route to Kashmir, and Kashmir.