1900-1909

Juggler with goat and monkey

An Dhurandhar portrait of a familiar sight on Bombay streets, the multi-tasking juggler. Note once again the soft city backdrop.

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In her absorbing and little known memoir At home in India ; or Tâza-be-Tâza (1903), Mrs. Margaretta Catherine Reynolds wrote in the section Indian Jugglers "It was in the verandah of the Bishop’s Palace, that I first witnessed the wonderful basket

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Circular Walk Gulmarg Kashmir

Probably printed by Raphael Tuck & Co. in London on behalf of Hartmann, one of the earliest Tuck-printed set of 6 postcards of India, likely all made by the same unknown Aquarelle painter.

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Corstorphans Hotel, Simla

While this postcard is from the early 1900s, as late as 1938 Murray's Handbook for India, Burma and Ceylon still recommended Costorphan's Hotel, with Cecil (Faletti's), Grand and Elysium to its travelers to the hillstation.

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The Memorial Church, Cawnpore

The Memorial Church in Kanpur is also called "All Soul's Cathedral"

Kanpur Memorial Church was erected in 1875 in the memory of British soldiers and civilians who died during the 1857 War of Independence or what the British called the Mutiny.

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Postmen of the British Empire: Mail Carrier and Guard, Oudeypore, India

Mail Carrier and Guard, Oudeypore, India.

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Depot Dalhousie

Dalhousie is in the north-western Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Dalhousie never became a major hillstation like Simla or Ootacamund.

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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.

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Chowringhee, Calcutta

[Original caption] “Chowringhee, Calcutta. Chowringhee Road runs past the sumptuous edifice of the Bengal Club and the nest residential quarter of Calcutta to St. Paul’s Cathedral.