[Unidentified Camp]
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This postcard probably shows a scene near Ravi Varma's studios outside Bombay [Mumbai] near the Karli temples.
1900-1909
Indian Palace, Franco-British Exhibition, London
The Franco-British Exhibition of 1908, celebrating a new understanding on dividing up colonial interests between the two powers, came at the height of interest and production of the new medium of postcards.
Kasauli, The Club
"In any town in India the European Club is the spiritual citadel, the real seat of the British power, the Nirvana for which native officials and millionaires pine in vain," wrote George Orwell in his first novel, Burmese Days (Chapter 2). First
Her Christmas Market
[Original handwritten message, verso] "25/11 Dear David, These are the funny old carriages which we see every day in Calcutta. The old lady has been shopping for Christmas."
An fascinating article on the artist behind this postcard, George Darby, by
Lahore. Wazir Khan's Mosque (Outer Part)
A card with over-printed Christmas Greetings, hard to find but not unusual.
[Original caption] Wazir Khan's Mosque (Outer Part) Lahore.
Orient Club, Chowpatty, Bombay
Founded in 1900, this club for European and Indian members still operates in its original premises, a fine example of South Bombay's Indo-Sarcenic architecture. Prominent Indian members included Shri Bhulabhai J. Desai, H.H. Prince Aga Khan, H.H.
Indian Baker and Opium Smokers
A unusual two-image postcard, almost the only one from that most prolific of publishers, Moorli Dhur & Sons. It shows two men on their sides, one of whom is smoking an opium pipe. Such scenes are almost never shown in postcards (exception: an opium
A Group of Punjabi Mohamedan Women & Men
One wonders where this photograph was taken, possibly in the Murree hills but it could have been elsewhere too.
Toddy Drawers
The process begins with collecting sap from coconut or palm flowers as these men are doing. Fresh sap, known as 'Neera,' is initially sweet, lukewarm, and non-alcoholic and collected in small pots attached beneath sliced unopened palm flowers.
General View of Darjeeling with Snow
The London based publisher F.
