Oodypur. Panoramic View from Ambamaba
Ambamata is located on the northern shore of Fateh Sagar Lake and offers a scenic view of the city. The lake was dug in the 17th century.
Postcard
Armee Anglo Indienne - Campement d'Indiens
A striking portrait of individuals, young and old, who served in the British Indian army that fought in France during World War I. This card is postmarked 1915, and was used to "offer a handshake to a friend."
Benares from the River
The two boats in the foreground distinguish this view of Varanasi.
Dalhousie Bazaar
Addressed to Miss E. Young, West Worthing, Sussex, England and postmarked Dalhouse, May 23, 1905: "Along the top of the houses on the right runs the road.
Bridge on the Simla-Kalka Railway, near Kanol
Bridge 541 on the Simla-Kalka Railway was finished in 1898 and remains one of the great engineering feats of this nearly 1,000 bridge, 100 kilometer narrow-gauge Indian railway lines.
Montgomery Hall, Lahore
Built in the 1862, and named after one of the first British lieutenant-governors, it "carried European classical architecture into this distant and recently conquered province," according to Thomas R. Metcalf in An Imperial Vision Indian
Bridge Leading to Mountain Pass, Chitral
There are few postcards from Chitral available at the turn of the century, a remote set of mountain valleys that figured in the explorations and struggles around the "Great Game" with Tzarist Russia in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Kutub Minar, Delhi
Qutub Minar is among the tallest brick minarets in the world, an important early example of Indo-Islamic architecture built between 1199-1220 ACE. The Mexican writer Octavio Paz described it in his book In Light of India (1995):
"it is difficult to
His Majesty The Amir's Visit - Agra Darbar
On January 15, 1907 the Afghan Amir Habibullah Khan visited Agra where he was shown major monuments and received in great style. An early example of a current-affairs postcard, where recent events were quickly memorialized by publishers.
Gateway Cemetery - Bareilly
The melancholy entrance to a Victorian British cemetery.
