Water Maid. Jaipur.
A woman balancing water pots on her head is a common site across the Indian subcontinent.
Collotype
Moplah Women
Moplahs are the Muslim descendants of Arab traders who married local women and settled along the Malabar coast over the centuries.
In the Market, Bangalore.
Bangalore is well-known for sprawling shopping malls, although in British times it was largely a cantonment town and only recently has become an information technology hub and one of the cities most prominently linked to the outsourcing of Western
Ranjit Singh's Tomb, Lahore
The mausoleum of the great Sikh ruler of Punjab, Maharajah Ranjit Singh.
Views of Madras
An early multi-view collotype of Madras, with five separate photographs, in a decorative flower frame.
A Typical Yarkundi
A Central Asian trader who made his way down the slippery, winding routes of the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalayan ranges into Kashmir's valleys.
The Residency Quetta
The Residency, called "one of the prettiest official residencies in India" by the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908) was where the British Chief Commissioner of British Baluchistan lived.
Hindu Colonnade of Pillars of Pure Hindu Architecture Belonging to the 9th of 10th Century, Delhi
Jadu Kissen was a photographer associated for a time with the Archaeological Survey of India and operated out of Srinagar and Delhi; his distinctive postcards were hand-tinted and their captions could be as long as his main competitor in Delhi, H.A.
Natives of Sind, (Amil Rage)
Every person in this literate Hindu caste of administrators in Hyderabad, Sindh is wearing at least one Western article of clothing.
One card, postmarked in Karachi on Nov.
Jaipur Woman
Sometimes also called "Sleeping Hindoo Woman" this postcard was about as risque as they got and was labelled "India circulation" in an album of Gobindram Oodeyram postcards put together by one S.
