When this card was first published from London, The Picture Postcard and Collector's Chronicle, a magazine that catered to collectors, businessmen and and aficionados of the new medium, hailed it as a “a fascinating dancing girl from Benares” (Jan.
![Humayon's [Humayun's] Tomb, Delhi](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/humayunds-tomb-delhi-signed.jpg?itok=98UGZcXV "Humayon's [Humayun's] Tomb, Delhi")
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
[Original caption] Catholic Cathedral, Lahore. Among the many fine buildings in modern Lahore the noble church in the picture is well worthy of notice. The many trees in its vicinity give quite an English appearance.
Postcard from a painting by Mortimer Menpes for the book INDIA by Flora Ann Steel. Published by A. & C. Black & Co.
An early coloured postcard of the annual Muslim Shia procession on the 21st day of the month of Ramadan commemorating the death of Hazrat Ali, the fourth Caliph.
[Original caption] Government House - Calcutta has been called a City of palaces: Government House is the Palace of the Viceroy.
[Original caption] A Begging Fakir.
![Dhurmtollah Masjid [Mosque], Calcutta.](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/dhurmtollah-road_0.jpg?itok=y4QxuwkE "Dhurmtollah Masjid [Mosque], Calcutta.")
[Original caption] Dhurmtollah Musjid. One of the busiest localities of Calcutta. It is noticeable that in Dhurmtollah Lane, the names on the shops and offices are all native names while close by in Dhurmtollah Street they are chiefly European.
[Original caption] Sheveegeena Pagoda, Pagan, Burmah. The golden pagoda at Pagan, 900 years ago, of the Burmah empire. The site is now a desert, forced labour employed for the building of these temples having ruined its prosperity. [end]
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Indian troops arriving to support Britain in World War I.
