Bawarchi. (Cook.)
The word "bawarchi" for cook apparently entered Hindi via Urdu from classical Persian. "Chi" is a common Persian suffix meaning "a person who does or is associated with" a type of work.
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Maharaja's Palace, Srinagar
Sher Garhi Palace was a royal residence and power center on the banks of the Jhelum in Srinagar.
Picturesque Burma. Zaffera (Zaffera) with a floating house.
[Original Italian] La Birmania pifforesca. Zaffera con casa galleggiante. [end]
This card was published by an Italian missionary society, L'Insituto Delle Missioni Estere di Milano.
Camel Car with Dunlop Tyres - Karachi
A captivating blend of technologies: in the back railway cars, transporting bags of wheat which find their way on to camel carts with brand name rubber tires. Camels were a popular means of transport in Karachi through the 1950s.
Postmarked Bombay,
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.
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. On the left is a portion of Government House.
The range of offices in the
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.
