Delhi

This is a superbly hand-tinted postcard, with both swathes of color (pink and blue) and individual color specs in the crowd mixed with the black ink of the collotype enhancing the effect of a real crowd praying.

[Original caption] Repaired by the Emperor Humayun in 1540 A.D. According to tradition founded by Pandav King, about 1400 B.C. [end]

Princess Jahanara's Tomb was built during her lifetime and completed in 1681, the year of her death.

Mr. Hartmann did good publicity in The Picture Postcard, a London-based magazine for early British postcard collectors and enthusiasts.

The publisher seems to speak to the Indian customers with this translation perpendicular to the image, and perhaps educate European ones:

[Recto]"Translation in English from the Arabic written on her tomb"
"He is alone everliving and everlasting".

The Alauddin Gate of Delhi is known as Alai Darwaza

[Original caption] Built by Alaudin Khilji in 1310 A.D. [end]

The Cross & Ball Church is known as the St. James Church of Old Delhi inside Kashmir Gate. It was built by James Skinner in 1836. It is said that Skinner was once badly wounded while serving the army. He vowed to build a church in case he survived.

Qutub Minar is among the tallest brick minarets in the world, an important early example of Indo-Islamic architecture built between 1199-1220 ACE. The Mexican writer Octavio Paz described it in his book In Light of India (1995):

A candid Delhi shot by a little-known photographer.

The Mexican Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz (1914-1998) served as his country's Ambassador to India in the 1960s, and just before he died left behind a memoir of the country, In Light of India (1995) which has a beautiful description of Humayun's…