Piran Kalyar
Bhargava’s firm specialised in chromolithographic “god pictures” and other devotional or pious imager of Hindu deities, Sikh gurus, Islamic sites and calligraphic posters.
Postcard
Hindu Woman.
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.
Water Carrier
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
Mount Abu. General View.
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.
Calcutta. New Government Offices.
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.
Wazir Khan's Mosque (outer part) Lahore
Known for its beautiful "faience" work, a type of fine pottery-tile artwork, the historic Wazir Khan mosque in the walled city of Lahore was built during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan by Shaikh Ilm-ud-din Ansari between 1634 and 1641.
Fruit Sellers
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.
Rampore Jhelum Valley, Kashmir
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,
No. 94 Study of a Singhalese Woman
Note the title, which attempts to justify the nude image as some sort of ethnographic study.
The Kutab Minar, Iron Pillar and the Great Arches, Delhi.
The Quwwat ul Islam Mosque located in the Kutab complex is a magnificent ruin, and a very popular tourist location today. This transformation began much earlier. As Aditi Chandra recounts in her book Unruly Monuments Disrupting the State at Delhi's
