The Cave of Fakir of Api in Arsalkot
Mirza Ali Khan (1901-1960) was a Waziri tribal leader who fought a number of campaigns against the British in the 1930s and 1940s, and later against Pakistan as well in support of an independent Pashtunistan.
Postcard
CMS Medical Missions Islamabad
Missionaries were prolific early publishers of postcards in India, using them for fundraising and general propagation of their work and activities.
With the Indian Expeditionary Force
A rare surviving postcard from the Indian Expeditionary Force, the troops sent to fight with the Allies in Europe during World War I. It is addressed in Urdu to “M.
Camp Ali Musjid In The Late Afghan War 1919
Camp Ali Musjid is atop the hill on the left, a key base for the Second Afghan War in 1878-79 between the Raj and Afghanistan; this postcard shows the British encampments on the same border with Afghanistan forty years later in the Third Afghan War.
Jahangiri Mahal, Agra Fort.
[Original caption] A beautiful palace of red sandstone built either by Akbar (1556-1605) or by Jahanghir (1605-1627). The great central court, its pillars, the carving and ornamentation, are all pure Hindu.
Gateway of India, Showing Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay
A rare Tuck's "Real Photograph" postcard of India, which they seem to have offered in response to the market around the 1930s. The Mexican writer Octavio Paz describes the scene in 1951 when he first approached Bombay by ship:
"An arch of stone
Cashmere [House Boat]
![Cashmere [House Boat]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/cashmere-boat.jpg?itok=aknYvE1L "Cashmere [House Boat]")
A postcard printed in Great Britain, but with the unusual electrotype on the back "Post Restante," also known as "Post Restant" which means to hold the item at a post office until it is picked up by a traveler.
The Town Hall, City Jubbulpore [Jabalpur]
![The Town Hall, City Jubbulpore [Jabalpur]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/hall-jabalpur_0.jpg?itok=MOG5X0Ob "The Town Hall, City Jubbulpore [Jabalpur]")
The former Town Hall is now the Gandhi Bhawan Library and was built in an Indo-Saracenic style blending Western and Eastern elements. It was inaugurated in 1892.
India, Franco-British Exhibition, London 1908
An official postcard from what was the largest exhibition ever held in London, and the first organized by two nations together. It drew some 8 million visitors to an area known later as "White City" because all the buildings were painted white.
