An even smaller than usual court-sized postcard, with a blind-stamped instead of printed "Post Card" on the back, suggesting it is among the earliest postcards published by the firm, and therefore one of the first of a dancer.
[Original caption] The Residency (General View.) Lucknow. The Residency Building is a ruin, though a very beautiful one, but it is possible to ascend the staircase of one of the towers, where throughout the siege (11th June - 17th November 1857) the…
[Original caption] General View, from Clock Tower. Bombay is without doubt a prosperous city. The houses are large, handsome and well-built, the gardens well-laid out and cared for while the streets are clear and orderly.
[Original caption] The great mosque, 200 years old, is a marvel of Indian architecture. Its huge expanse of red sandstone and white marble, its snowy cupolas, and golden pinnacles, are spread out on its colossal platform of stone to get its fill of…
A portrait of Tagore published three years after his death. In Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson's excellent biography of this great man (Bloomsbury, 1995), there appears this translation of this poignant poem:
[Original caption] Tomb of Etamad-ud-Dowla, Agra. The whole of the exterior and much of the interior is of white marble with beautiful inlay work. The mausoleum stands in a beautiful garden.
[Original caption] Group of Lamas. The Lamas are priests of the Buddhist religion. Buddhism prevails in Mongolia, Tibet, and in parts of India, having its chief monastery at Lhasa, Tibet, where resides the Dalai-Lama or Grand Lama, who is the Pope…
Few if any politicians were as popular as Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the Maharashtrian politician and freedom fighter who spent many years in jail. He was referred to by British authorities as "the father of Indian unrest."
