A rare postcard of the man who founded the RSS, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, an Indian nationalistic, right-wing Hindu organization that continues to play a prominent role in Indian politics, in 1925 in Nagpur following his disillusionment with
![[Calcutta Harbour on the Hooghly]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/calcutta-old_0.jpg?itok=WWJ-6Vwf "[Calcutta Harbour on the Hooghly]")
An early and rare early photo postcard, made with a photograph pasted on card stock.
Hector Bolitho, the biographer who spent time in Pakistan in the early 1950s researching his book Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan (1954) wrote this about the Shalimar Gardens:
"While I was in Lahore I made a habit of rising at five o'clock each morning
![[Woman at loom]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/woman-at-loom_0.jpg?itok=KOmoyvGo "[Woman at loom]")
K. Lall & Co. were a publisher of interesting real photo postcards, like this one of a cotton spinner, whose flat composition speaks to a style of portrait photography not common among photographers.
The Karachi Congress party meeting, held six days after Bhagat Singh was executed on March 23, 1931, was a tense affair.
By the 1920s, Karachi's port had become one of the most commercially significant in the British Empire — by 1910, it was said to already be handling more wheat than any other port in the British Empire.
The Madras Club is a colonial-era gentlemen’s club in Chennai, founded in 1832 as an exclusive European male preserve and now one of India’s oldest surviving social clubs.
[Original caption on front, shown here] "The blow that was hurled at us this afternoon was a nail in the coffin of the British Empire. Nobody who has seen it is ever likely to forget it. It has sunk deep into our own soul.
![[Ritz Hotel]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/ritz-hotel_0.jpg?itok=6mJycLJX "[Ritz Hotel]")
Originally the Hill Fort Palace of the Nawab of Hyderabad, the Government of India leased the property to the RItz Hotel Company around 1955 which operated a hotel here for decades.
![[Connaught Circle, Delhi]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/connaught-circle_0.jpg?itok=eaSsOHfD "[Connaught Circle, Delhi]")
Connaught Circle was built as part of Lutyen's Delhi between 1929 and 1933 to be the principal commercial plaza of New Delhi. Rangoon Studio was a well-known photographic studio at 58, Janpath and seems to have closed later as rents rose.
