A Table Servant
Note the liquor bottle, likely whisky and soda on the tray in the khitmatgar's hands.
Note the liquor bottle, likely whisky and soda on the tray in the khitmatgar's hands.
These kinds of offensive postcards seem to have been part of series by both Higginbotham's and their main competitor in South India, Spencer & Co.
Part of an offensive series by both Higginbotham's showing domestic staff in various acts of revolt, dereliction or other transgressions that would have made colonists laugh and feel slightly uncomfortable.