Eid Mubarak [Eid Greetings]
This lavishly illustrated card, embossed in gold outline, was printed in Germany. It shows how European figures and themes were easily repurposed for local holidays.
This lavishly illustrated card, embossed in gold outline, was printed in Germany. It shows how European figures and themes were easily repurposed for local holidays.
A rather subtle Eid Mubarak ["Blessed or Happy Eid"] blends into the colorful sky as a train plows through the landscape. Bombay and Lahore were the centers of Eid card production before and in the decades after Partition.
The Bengali writer Nirad Chaudhuri (1897-1999) described the Eid celebrations in his birthplace of Kishorganj, Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh: "Since the Id moves backwards round the year it had no particular association with season and weather as had
An Eid Mubarak card from Lahore in the 1930s.