Subhash Chandra Bose, also called Netaji, was one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian freedom movement, and remains one of the most revered leaders of the Indian freedom struggle, a representative of the most aggressive line with British
An uncommon type of postcard flourished in Darjeeling, with individuals on real-photo black and white postcards carefully silhouetted and then individually hand-painted.
An advertising postcard from the Singer sewing machine company, aligning its brand with one of India's most iconic structures, likely soon after it was opened officially in 1924. Note the automobiles on the bottom right.
A rare early Bollywood star postcard, though the movie the still is likely taken from, and the sad-looking star are unknown.
This discovery of the ancient Indus civilization, announced in 1924 by John Marshall, who led the excavations at Mohenjo-daro, radically shifted perspectives on ancient India.
![[Peshawar Bazaar]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/peshawar-bazaar-1938.jpg?itok=pdaDKz8g "[Peshawar Bazaar]")
A real photo postcard of Peshawar bazaar showing a minaret of Mahabat Khan mosque, built in the 17th century. This postcard was sent to a Mr.
!["Quetta Earthquake" [handwritten]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/quetta-burning-butani.jpg?itok=4T7kGYhK "\"Quetta Earthquake\" [handwritten]")
Sometimes postcards were journalism, in this case a real-time view of the deadliest earthquake in British India, which killed somewhere between 30,000 and 60,000 people in the capital of Balochistan on May 23, 1935. Butani was a military photographer
An Eid Mubarak card from Lahore in the 1930s.
Known locally as the "Kala Chapra" or "Black Shed," this enormous structure constructed in the late 1920s was considered one of the largest structures in the British Empire.
"Hindustani girls" was used to refer to women from "Hindustan," or the broad belt across northern India east of Punjab known as U.P., then "United Provinces" and now "Uttar Pradesh." It would have been a term appropriate to a Peshawar based
