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While the word "dandy" suggests being fashionable, and may be a secondary meaning, the word is said to actually come from "dandi" or the Hindi/Urdu word for stick, which are used to distribute the woman's weight across them men's shoulders.

By 1899, Karachi had become the largest wheat and cotton exporting port in South Asia. The port's significance in wheat exports grew rapidly, and by 1910, Karachi handled greater quantities of wheat than any other port in the British Empire.

Not too far back, the local Hindu, Sikh and Christian communities would participate in the Shia Taziah processions in Peshawar.

Shankar is another name for Lord Shiva, one of the most important deities in Hinduism. While hard to see in this postcard, which was printed in Germany on behalf of the publisher in Sukkur, Sindh, glitter was then added to the postcard, something…

Postmarked [illegible date] Rawalpindi, addressed to Miss. L. Ballinger, Montrose House, 155 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, with this message on the back:

"This place is the same as a Town in England I Remain Your Old Dear Best."

For some unknown reason, Moorli Dhur & Sons most framed, embossed and otherwise uniquely designed postcards are from Chakrata, a cantonment in Dehradun district Chakrata known for its natural beauty, including forests of oak and rhododendron, and…

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Santals are an Austroasiatic-speaking Munda ethnic group in Bengal, Bihar and elsewhere.

Mowbray's Road in Madras (now Chennai) was named after George Mowbray, who arrived in Madras in 1771.

A very early Tuck's postcard of India, and likely among the earliest of Darjeeling. Made from an albumen photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, whose credit is visible on the bottom right of the photograph.

One of the more richly coloured postcards of the Hawa Mahal, built in 1799. Note the care with which individual blankets have been tinted in the foreground.