The Kullar Road
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.
People
Natives Jetty, Karachi
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.
Inoculation against Plague, Bombay.
Postmarked May 7, 1904, Sea Post Office, Mumbai. Addressed to “Miss. R. Kennedy, Viewmont Drive, Gilshochill, Mary Hill, Glasgow, Scotland.”
“Dear Ruby, when I see you I shall be able to explain this p.c. [postcard] to you. With my love, John [sp?]”
[Unidentified Camp]
![[Unidentified Camp]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/camp_0.jpg?itok=tjzsuyNx "[Unidentified Camp]")
This postcard probably shows a scene near Ravi Varma's studios outside Bombay [Mumbai] near the Karli temples.
Village Preaching, Kanigiri, South India.
Informative preaching sessions in villages were usually held in the central part of the villages by American and British missionaries.
Liaquat Ali Khan
Sharif al Mujahid in his book In Quest of Jinnah Diary, Notes and Correspondence of Hector Bolitho (pp. 51-2), which collates many unpublished pieces by Jinnah's first biographer, includes this excerpt dated 11 April [1952]:
"Visit to Liaquat Gardens
A Native Shop
This well-posed image of a fruit and spice store is appropriately shadowed by the iron framed structure behind it.
Clive Street (Evening), Calcutta
Sujaan Mukherjee writes of Frank Clinger Scallan's postcards of Calcutta: "The artist may or may not have used photographs as reference, but unlike most photographs that depict churches, public buildings or trams, these drawings recall a city that is
Prayer in Juma Masjid, Delhi
This is a superbly hand-tinted postcard, with both swathes of color (pink and blue) and individual color specs in the crowd mixed with the black ink of the collotype enhancing the effect of a real crowd praying.
Greetings from Mhow
There are 14 images in this carefully constructed postcard of a cantonment town in Central India now known as Dr. Ambedkar Nagar (after the first great leader of India's Dalit community). The publisher, K.
