From an unusual later lithographic series, with some photographs by Raja Deen Dayal, and many of areas like this one around Hyderabad and including events like Lord Curzon's visit in 1903 to the State, it is nonetheless not at all clear that Dayal
This so-called "chromo-collotype" card was created by running an image derived from a black and white photograph through multiple color runs, after each color had dried, creating rich and translucent images.
Hindu woman wearing a white sari. Getting the shades and printing correct, especially the white, on this card would have required great skill, and apparently was done by the leading early German postcard printer Knackstedt and Roder.
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
The hill station of Mount Abu, formerly part of the Chauhan Kingdom of Rajasthan, was the summer resort of the Rajput rulers. A green oasis in the barren landscape of Rajasthan.
Kolkata is the financial, business and commercial nerve-center of eastern India and capital of West Bengal, and was the first and longest capital of the British Raj in India.
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,
Kandy is still the religious and cultural capital of Sri Lanka, founded in the 14th Century capital of the Sinhalese kingdom from 1592-1815. The name Kandy is derived from the Sinhalese "Kanda uda pas rata", which means "five districts in the
