Patna Archer Mission
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Santals are an Austroasiatic-speaking Munda ethnic group in Bengal, Bihar and elsewhere.
[Original caption, Verso, translated
Santals are an Austroasiatic-speaking Munda ethnic group in Bengal, Bihar and elsewhere.
A thematically most unusual postcard.
An early British Royal Air Force base in Pishin, Balochistan, near the Afghan border and what was then Northwest Frontier Province where the British were engaged in suppressing tribal resistance throughout the 192s and 1930s.
Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha (24 March 1863 – 4 March 1928), was a prominent British Indian lawyer and statesman who achieved several notable firsts, including being the first Indian to become Advocate-General of Bengal (1905), first
A view from inside the hillstation of Murree's bazaar, usually shown from the top down. The Mall Road is upwards to the left, and was where the European-owned and focussed stores were.
Mowbray's Road in Madras (now Chennai) was named after George Mowbray, who arrived in Madras in 1771. Originally a bullock cart track, it was acquired by George Mowbray in the late 18th century and led to Mowbray's garden house, which became the
A very early Tuck's postcard of India, and likely among the earliest of Darjeeling. Made from an albumen photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, whose credit is visible on the bottom right of the photograph.
[Original title] Maliakali or Devi as Durga the destroyer of the demons of all devouring thing. [end]
Kali and Durga are closely related manifestations of the divine feminine energy in Hinduism.
One of the more richly coloured postcards of the Hawa Mahal, built in 1799. Note the care with which individual blankets have been tinted in the foreground.
Nicknamed the "Eton of the East," renowned for its Indo-Saracenic architecture, blending Mughal, Rajputana, and Gothic styles, it was founded in 1875 to provide modern education to Indian aristocracy, particularly princes and nobles of Rajputana.