From an unusual later lithographic series, with some photographs by Raja Deen Dayal, and many of areas like this one around Hyderabad and including events like Lord Curzon's visit in 1903 to the State, it is nonetheless not at all clear that Dayal
This so-called "chromo-collotype" card was created by running an image derived from a black and white photograph through multiple color runs, after each color had dried, creating rich and translucent images.
"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.
[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.
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.
The Pakistani poet Daud Kamal (1935-1987) has a poem entitled Water-Carrier:
More patches on his clothes
than on the empty goatskin
slung across his shoulder.
Like the others
he waits his turn
at the Municipal tap.
Twice a day
he delivers water
free
A very popular image, also published in a hand-colored version by D. Macopolo & Co.
Postmarked with no message at the Sea Post Office, likely Bombay May 6, 1905 and sent to Miss Adelaide McConway (sp?), 252 Bishop St., Montreal, Canada.
Note the title, which attempts to justify the nude image as some sort of ethnographic study.
Hector Bolitho, the biographer who spent time in Pakistan in the early 1950s researching his book Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan (1954) wrote this about the Shalimar Gardens:
"While I was in Lahore I made a habit of rising at five o'clock each morning
