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.
Religion
Shankar
Shankar is another name for Lord Shiva, one of the most important deities in Hinduism.
Maliakali or Devi
[Original title] Maliakali or Devi as Durga the destroyer of the demons of all devouring thing. [end]
Kali and Durga are closely related manifestations of the divine feminine energy in Hinduism.
The Massacre Ghat
In one of the earliest series of postcards of India by Tuck, four of the six Kanpur postcards recalled events a half-century earlier; the "Mutiny," as the British called this major uprising against their rule remained very much part of colonial
Mohammedan Boy from East India
One of the few Dutch postcards of Indians, though these portraits often were striking, like this postcard of a Hindu.
Eid Card Train
A rather subtle Eid Mubarak ["Blessed or Happy Eid"] blends into the colorful sky as a train plows through the landscape. Bombay and Lahore were the centers of Eid card production before and in the decades after Partition.
Missionary Catechists of Mary Immaculate Mymensingh Hindustan On Tour at the Home of the Garros
Many of the very few postcards of Bangladesh from pre-Partition times are by Catholic missionaries in Mymensingh in particular, here shown incongruously on a bullock cart.
[Original French title] Catechistes Missionnaires de Marie Immaculee -
Hindu Religious Beggar
A striking studio portrait in which the viewer's eyes are drawn by to subject's wide-open gaze. Was he asked not to blink? Or did the photographer amend the negative?
Preaching by Riverside, Chittagong Hill Tracts
A rather early real photo postcard from what is now Bangladesh, a part of British India that is vastly under presented in postcard production.
The Incomparable Mandalay
One can only applaud the sender of this postcard, the careful positioning of the stamp, the postmark which seems to be from 1923. The card was not addressed, so was either sent in an envelope or kept.
