People

Famines were common in British India.

In 1770, the British rulers faced the first major famine in Bengal, one that wiped out a substantial part of the province's population.

One wonders how long the sitters had to be still in this rigorously posed photograph, where the kid on the far left seems to have moved his right hand, creating a bit of a blur.

It is unusual for postcards to put two people on an ethnographic postcard, although in this case it was the height contrast that caught the attention of the publisher in this studio shot. Would it have been better had the man not sat down?

A really special postcard, a view of rural life usually invisible on to these casual slips of paper.

Likely the main ascent from the plains up to Conoor and onward to Ooty, the ascent into the Nilgiris, and today better known as Kallar Ghat/the Conoor Ghat Road.

By the 1920s, Karachi's port had become one of the most commercially significant in the British Empire — by 1910, it was said to already be handling more wheat than any other port in the British Empire.

Postmarked May 7, 1904, Sea Post Office, Mumbai. Addressed to “Miss. R. Kennedy, Viewmont Drive, Gilshochill, Mary Hill, Glasgow, Scotland.”

“Dear Ruby, when I see you I shall be able to explain this p.c. [postcard] to you. With my love, John [sp?]”

This postcard probably shows a scene near Ravi Varma's studios outside Bombay [Mumbai] near the Karli temples.

Informative preaching sessions in villages were usually held in the central part of the villages by American and British missionaries.

Sharif al Mujahid in his book In Quest of Jinnah Diary, Notes and Correspondence of Hector Bolitho (pp. 51-2), which collates many unpublished pieces by Jinnah's first biographer, includes this excerpt dated 11 April [1952]: