Collotype

"Since the Viceroyalty of Sir John Lawrence in 1865 Simla has been the summer capital of the Government of India.

[Original caption] Commenced in 1637 and completed in 1648 A.D. by the Emperor Shahjehan. Wonderful Building in the world [end]

A standard view of the Taj, but one which manages to capture the uplifting whiteness of the marble better than most.

One of the earlier firmly dateable postcards by H.A. Mirza & Sons, the Chandni Chowk photography firm which was to become the dominant Delhi and northern Indian postcard publisher by 1905.

The word "Dhangar" owes its origin to the Sanskrit word "Dhenu" (cow), and apparently refers to a caste of people associated with herding primarily in Maharashtra, but also throughout India.

An early "Greetings from" postcard of Darjeeling by its premiere early photographer Thomas Paar. Clare Harris in her excellent book Photography and Tibet (Reaktion, 2016) "deconstructs" the figure on the left, whom she correctly calls a 'poster boy'…

Just a beautiful postcard, where photography, color, and embossed frame gang up to offer visual delight.

Tamuku Taluk is in West Godavari District, Andhra Prades, near the northern part of the Bay of Bengal.

Before the advent of the motor car the tonga or open horse-drawn carriage was a popular mode of transporting humans and goods in the Indian subcontinent.

Also known as Lokmanya ("accepted by the people as their leader") Tilak, this Maharashtran was one of the first leaders of the Independence Movement, and someone who used the plague and other injustices of British rule to rally people around the cry…

This is an intriguing postcard because the mosque's domes are actually golden, from which it derives its name. Here they are rendered as blue.

An early court-sized card made from an albumen photograph with the studio inscribed in the glass negative at the bottom.