Bombay Mumbai

Around the turn of the century, women of Bombay were on the cutting-edge of popular fashion, photographed in studio settings like this one and extensively postcarded.

The Mexican Nobel Prize-winning poet Octavio Paz has a nice description of coming upon the Taj Mohal Hotel by ship for the first time in the early 1950s: "Behind the monument [India Gate], floating in the warm air, was a silhouette of the Taj Mahal…

A lithographic portrait, which by this time had become a lesser used printing process for postcards.

Elphinstone College, Mumbai is one of the oldest colleges in the University of Mumbai system. It is named after Mountstuart Elphinstone, the Governor of Bombay from 1819 to 1827.

An almost dreamlike view of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus), better known by its local acronym CST or VT, a historic railway station that serves as the headquarters of the Central Railways in India and now one of the…

The Round Temple of Mumbai is also known as the Gol Dewal, on what is now Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Rd. It is also famous for the stone market situated on both sides of it. This market is considered the city's oldest.

A striking image of a small Parsi girl sitting on a table with her feet on a chair, the "de [of] Bombay" added by the French sender in 1911.

While quite distinctive, keyhole views like this one were a brief fad that overtook early postcard publishing and soon disappeared.

Maybe it is the hookahs and Arab head dress of the main in the green robe smoking a cigarette, but this seems to be a scene in Bombay bazaar.

An early view of golf being played in British India, with both a man and woman playing.