The Grand Hotel on Chowringhee Road, colonial Calcutt's main corridor, is now the Oberoi Grand Hotel. Built in the late 19th century, it was used by thousands of troops in World War II and today is among the most luxurious in India.
![[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.
Known as the 'Old Fort' of Delhi, the Purana Qil'a, lies on the eastern edge of Delhi, along the river Jumna.
[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.
Informative preaching sessions in villages were usually held in the central part of the villages by American and British missionaries.
Saraswati is the goddess of learning and the arts (e.g., music), and is often seen playing the Veena, a string instrument. She is also worshipped as the goddess of thoughts of truth and forgiveness.
A standard depiction of the colony as a trunk full of raw materials, this series seems to have been started in the 1900-1910 period and persisted into the 1940s.
This postcard is postmarked Anerle, May 5, 1942 and sent to a Miss Pound, Jubilee
Bhistees supplied water to households and regiments
In the past, water carriers used cured hides of animals to carry water. Today animal hides have been replaced by bottles and jars of plastic.
"In any town in India the European Club is the spiritual citadel, the real seat of the British power, the Nirvana for which native officials and millionaires pine in vain," wrote George Orwell in his first novel, Burmese Days (Chapter 2). First
