Morning exercise
An early view of golf being played in British India, with both a man and woman playing.
Mumbai Bombay
Shatrunjay Temples
An early postcard of the large complex of Jain temples in Gujarat state. There are nearly 1,000 temples in a complex near Palitana in Bhavnagar district which is about 1,000 years old and receives hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
Bombay - Great Western Hotel
A storied building, still standing, which was everything from a Governor's residence to Admiralty House and the first High Court of Bombay.
Dancing Girl
One of the earliest postcards of a "dancing girl" printed in India. Nach [or Nautch] women among the most popular subjects of early postcards of India.
Bombay
The Jama Masjid is a mosque in the Kalbadevi neighborhood, near Crawford Market in the South Mumbai region of Mumbai, India.
Mali, the Gardener
A colonial offering, on a rare lithographic card, both obsequious and a caricature of the snotty memsahib.
No Hobson's Choice at Taraporevala's
A clever advertising postcard from what what Bombay's leading bookseller and major postcard publisher at the turn of the century.
The Advanced Prisoner's Compound, Mesopotamia
With Best Wishes for Xmas and the New Year
The fundraising postcard by a women's group in Bombay shows Turkish prisoners likely captured in 1917 when British Indian troops captured Baghdad and other areas of modern Iraq from the Ottoman Empire.
A Tea Estate, Darjeeling.
A very early postcard of Darjeeling which nicely represents, visually, the colonial project: a sprawling European building dominating lush grounds while tiny workers pluck away at tea leaves under the watchful gaze of a man in a solar topee.
Jahangirsha his jar of wine and Zaibun Nissa Begam
It seems as if the Mughal Emperor Jehanghir's (1569-1627) fondness for wine merited a postcard many centuries later.
