The “screw pine” at the Horticultural Gardens in Madras refers to Pandanus species (often Pandanus utilis / Pandanus odorifer), striking monocot trees with spiralling leaves and stilt‑like aerial roots that were prized as ornamental and economic
![[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.
When NWFP [now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa] was created in 1901, a legal framework (NWFP Law and Justice Regulation VII) was enacted to set up judicial institutions for the new province under a Judicial Commissioner, placing the province’s highest judicial
Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915) was a leading moderate nationalist, social reformer and parliamentarian in early 20th‑century India, best known as founder of the Servants of India Society and as an important political mentor to both M. K.
The Karachi Congress party meeting, held six days after Bhagat Singh was executed on March 23, 1931, was a tense affair.
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.
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The back of the Mumtaz-i-Mahal postcard, with an advertising message for tea and the ink stamp of the sales agent.
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.
