[Verso] Postmarked Trimulgherry, 23 Sept. 1910 (?) and addressed to "Mr. and Mrs. A. Barnes, 67 Frog Road (?), St. Denys, Southhampton, Hanks. England. Dear Both, I hope you and boys are quite well. Thought you would like a card.
Switzerland? Austria? No, Nainital. Located at a height of 2270 meters (over 7,000 feet), the point known as Snow View is one of the hillstation's most popular spots.
One of the best in Tuck's Native Life in India series, a cool contrast of blue and marble, showing the guards at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
[Original caption] The Sikh Akalis are one section of the famous "fakirs" or native priests of India.
Another humorous postcard depicting the hazards of ordinary class life under the Raj. The pre-written card says: "Not so bad. eh? A bit rough at the end of the month though. Yours -------" Running out of money, being in debt, or fleeing India in
No one savaged the British more than their continental rivals, the French and Germans.
World War I Indian merchant sailors on ships sunk by the German ship S.M.S.
This was the postcard M.V. Dhurandhar chose to send to E. Greenwood, his teacher at the J.J.
Hobson-Jobson defines fakir as "s. Hind. from Arab. faḳīr ('poor'). Properly an indigent person, but specially 'one poor in the sight of God,' applied to a Mahommedan religious mendicant, and then, loosely and inaccurately, to Hindu devotees and
