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Opium Shop

Opium Shop

Although opium was a major crop in the rise of the East India Company, and India the major producer of opium sent to China, with production carefully taxed and recorded, barely a handful of postcards seem to acknowledge the crop and its manufacture.

Naseem

Naseem

Naseem Banu (4 July 1916 – 18 June 2002) was a prominent Indian actress who rose to fame in the 1930s and 1940s.

A Lady in Dandy

A Lady in Dandy

While the word "dandy" suggests being fashionable, and may be a secondary meaning, the word is said to actually come from "dandi" or the Hindi/Urdu word for stick, which are used to distribute the woman's weight across them men's shoulders.

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