Water Maid. Jaipur.
A woman balancing water pots on her head is a common site across the Indian subcontinent.
A woman balancing water pots on her head is a common site across the Indian subcontinent.
Srimati Sarojini Naidu, also known as the Nightingale of India, for her poetry.
Sarojini Naidu (February 13, 1879 - March 2, 1949), known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India), was a child prodigy, freedom fighter, and poet.
Moplahs are the Muslim descendants of Arab traders who married local women and settled along the Malabar coast over the centuries.
Sometimes also called "Sleeping Hindoo Woman" this postcard was about as risque as they got and was labelled "India circulation" in an album of Gobindram Oodeyram postcards put together by one S.
"At the peak of the Tamil drama movement, she created a sensation like no other actor.
One of the of six of Tuck's early "Native Types of India" postcard series. Aquarettes were likely based on watercolors, and the artist could have been G.E. McCulloch, known for other postcards of India.
A very early court-sized postcard most probably by Paul Gerhardt, the chief lithographer at the Ravi Varma Press in Bombay.
This was the postcard M.V. Dhurandhar chose to send to E. Greenwood, his teacher at the J.J.