[Original caption] Colonnade, Hindoo Pillars, Kutub Minar. The Pillars, taken by the Mughal conquerors of India from a Hindoo temple, were recut to free them from idols and used to form the colonnade to the mosque.
In Hinduism, Durga is a form of Devi, the supreme goddess. Durga is depicted as a warrior woman riding a lion or a tiger with multiple hands carrying weapons and assuming mudras, or symbolic hand gestures.
Likely the main ascent from the plains up to Conoor and onward to Ooty, the ascent into the Nilgiris, and today better known as Kallar Ghat/the Conoor Ghat Road. Nicolas & Co.
"The Mall, far from serving merely as a site for commerce or recreation, functioned as a symbolic and material articulation of imperial hierarchy, controlling access to commodities and visibility, and reinforcing notions of prestige, superiority, and
The word "bawarchi" for cook apparently entered Hindi via Urdu from classical Persian. "Chi" is a common Persian suffix meaning "a person who does or is associated with" a type of work.
Sher Garhi Palace was a royal residence and power center on the banks of the Jhelum in Srinagar.
[Original Italian] La Birmania pifforesca. Zaffera con casa galleggiante. [end]
This card was published by an Italian missionary society, L'Insituto Delle Missioni Estere di Milano.
A captivating blend of technologies: in the back railway cars, transporting bags of wheat which find their way on to camel carts with brand name rubber tires. Camels were a popular means of transport in Karachi through the 1950s.
Postmarked Bombay,
Bhargava’s firm specialised in chromolithographic “god pictures” and other devotional or pious imager of Hindu deities, Sikh gurus, Islamic sites and calligraphic posters.
Hindu woman wearing a white sari. Getting the shades and printing correct, especially the white, on this card would have required great skill, and apparently was done by the leading early German postcard printer Knackstedt and Roder.
