Lithograph

A colonial offering, on a rare lithographic card, both obsequious and a caricature of the snotty memsahib.

A World War I recruiting postcard for the British-Indian Army.

[Recto, Translated from Gujarati-Bohri dialect] “You are our cause of existence. You symbolize and make us aware of our truthful rights.

A rare artist-painted postcard, likely by an amateur. Sir Malcolm Darling (1880-1969), a "maverick" I.C.S. Officer who spent over 40 years in Punjab, was a friend of E.M. Forster, and who himself wrote a number of penetrating books on Punjabi…

The Taj Hotel was built to realize Jamsetji N. Tata's dream of a fine hotel to reflect the ascendancy of Bombay's own mercantile class. The Taj Hotel was completed on December 16, 1903.

Of the nine Josef Hoffman artist-signed postcards of India published by a Viennese firm in 1898 (here in an English version for Thacker & Co.), this one is the hardest to find, why is unclear.

A studio portrait of a Parsi priest, holding an umbrella.

One of the many – to Indians, curious – new professions that sprouted in the growing city of Bombay at the turn of the century.

This particular postcard is among the hardest of Gerhardt's early works for The Ravi Varma Press to find, despite the effective use of depth of field to bring life to the scene.

There are very few Dutch postcards, let alone early ones, of India, but this is a splendid exception.

An early postcard by the French branch of the premiere Zurich, Switzerland-based publisher Kunzli Freres.