Extracting Gold, Cyanide Works, Kolar Fields
One can only imagine the enormous costs that accrued to the workers involved.
One can only imagine the enormous costs that accrued to the workers involved.
One of the less common "nautch girl" or dancing women postcards where the toll of the profession is visible on the sitter's face.
An early documentary or journalistic postcard. The Kangra earthquake of April 5, 1905, some 200 miles away in northern Punjab, damaged many structures in Lahore, a city of 180,000 and may have caused the fire referenced by this postcard.
Religious groups in opposition to the British found refuge in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan throughout the colonial period
The British fought a nearly continuous series of campaigns against various tribes and groups led by Muslim religious
World War I Indian merchant sailors on ships sunk by the German ship S.M.S.