Bullock with water-skins & Bhisti. Jaipur
Bullocks and bhistees served an important role in transporting fresh water to city residents.
Ensuring fresh water supply to the residents in a desert region was always difficult.
Jaipur
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.
Brahmins Dining. Jaipur.
A carefully staged scene in which the cloth backdrop helps focus us on the individuality of the men.
Manak Chowk, Jaipur
Gobindram Oodepyram produced a number of hand-tinted, two colour, postcards like this one where the pink, for example, is strategically deployed to lead the eye down the broad avenue.
Female Spinning, Jaipur
While this postcard published in Jaipur may have had nothing directly to do with the Swadeshi movement then taking off in Bengal, the charkha was am emblem of that cause for self-sufficiency and using indigenous materials and processes instead of
Jeypore Street Scene
[Original caption] Street Scene. The city of Jeypore, situated 850 miles north-west of Calcutta, is handsomely and regularly built, and is the most important centre of Rajputana.
School Boys & Master
A really well hand-tinted postcard, the boys foregrounded in unflinching skin tones while master is enveloped in white.
Jeypore Street Scene. Native Regiment on the March.
[Original caption] Street Scene. Native Regiment on the March. The army of Rajputana is about 14,000 strong. The men are soldiery and of fine physique.
Tiger, Jaipur
Most postcards of tigers during this period were of ones killed during hunting expeditions. with this being a refreshing exception even as the animal is likely confined in a small space.
Street Scene, Jaipur India
A real photo postcard likely made and sold by a photographer or vendor to tourists visiting Jaipur.
