The early 20th-century Home Rule League demanded self-government for the whole of India from British rule and was particularly active between 1916-18. Many Indian leaders supported this movement including the famous nationalist, Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
Lynne Withey writes in Grand Tours and Cooks Tours (London, 1998), about the growth of the Western tourist trade in the 1890s, that "apart from a few first-class establishments in major cities, most hotels were barely acceptable by Western…
"Darjeeling is a hillstation and Sanatorium, situated on the lower slopes of the Himalayas. Guide-books tell us that its name signifies “the sunny spot,” but I consider this a misnomer, “The abode of clouds” would, I think, have been more…
A 1945 calendar postcard by the Anglo-Indian animator and cartoonist Merton Lacey featuring Allied troops in India fighting the Japanese in Indo-China during World War II.
The word "Pariah" owes its origin to the Pariah caste of the Hindu society of India. Pariah originally referred to a person belonging to a low caste of southern India, and then someone who is isolated from the society, or considered different by…
[Original caption] The Jummas Masjid, Old Poor House Road. Jumma Masjid means "Friday Mosque" they say, and so it is not surprising that more than one Indian temple bears the name.
One of Fred Bremner's favorite images, also found in his autobiography. Wandering through Kashmir he wrote ". . . the eye may sometimes rest on a figure slowly gliding through mid-air with no apparent support whatever. . .
