M.V. Dhurandhar[signed]
c. 1903
12.10x
8.70cm
The Brahmin, as the art scholar Allan Life has noted, is reluctantly shuffling from tradition to modernity, from the temple behind him to the new city in front of him. Dhurandhar's postcards typically evoke their characters and frame them in the context of the bustling modernity of Bombay (Allan Life, Picture Postcards by M.V. Dhurandhar: Scenes and Types of India–with a Difference, in Visual Resources, Vol. XVII, 2001, p. 406).