These 600 year old gardens are near Kandy.
Originally created in the reign of the Sinhalese King Wickramabahu III during the 14th century, these gardens were improved by his successors and later by the English after their conquest of Kandy.
A British-cantonment era boulevard (running through the Peshawar Cantonment/Saddar area), and until recent decades could well be this peaceful and empty.
John & Co., Ceylon was an early 20th‑century commercial postcard and view‑card publisher based in Colombo (and very likely also Kandy), part of the broader trade in photographic and printed views of colonial Ceylon.
Numerous conqueror's came into the subcontinent through the Khyber Pass, including Darius I of Persia, Alexander the Great, Mahmud of Ghazni, Muhammad of Ghor, Timur (known as Tamerlane in the west), Babur, Nader Shah and Ahmad Shah Durrani.
One of the most ornate and lavish rooms within the Lahore Fort. Built during the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's 17th century reign, the Shish Mahal ("Shish" means mirror) is noted for its beautiful mirror work.
The Indian Pavilion at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition (Wembley) was designed as a major “showpiece” building in an Indo‑Saracenic/Mughal-revival idiom, explicitly modelled on iconic North Indian monuments (often described as drawing on the Jama
After Ahmad Shah Durrani took Peshawar in 1747, Bala Hissar served as a royal residence for the Durrani Empire. This period is strongly associated with the fort’s role as an Afghan administrative and courtly center in the frontier city.
![[Unidentified Camp]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/camp_0.jpg?itok=tjzsuyNx "[Unidentified Camp]")
This postcard probably shows a scene near Ravi Varma's studios outside Bombay [Mumbai] near the Karli temples.
[Original German] Ein Tamulenjungling im Festschmuck, Ostindien. [A Tamil boy in festive adornment]
A memorable portrait by a German missionary organization.
The Franco-British Exhibition of 1908, celebrating a new understanding on dividing up colonial interests between the two powers, came at the height of interest and production of the new medium of postcards.
