2 At First Sight
The second card in Dhurandhar's Coquettish Maid Servant Series. [Next]
Women
3. How Sweet you are!
The third card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. Note the chapati flour handprints on the husband's back. [Next]
4. Hush! My Wife! My wife!
The fourth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
5. Wife enraged
The fifth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
Damayanti
[Original caption] Damayanti is creeping stealthily to catch the golden Hansa. [end]
In the Mahabharata Hansa, the swan, extolls the virtues of King Nala to her and says "If the peerless wed the peerless—blessed must the union be," in one of the
Goan Beauty
Most likely a dancer given her anklets, Goa, as a Portuguese Colony, was not well-represented in British Indian postcards.
Milk Woman
Inside a studio, the barefoot milkmaid seems caught out of place.
A Cooly Woman, Bombay
The growth of a city like Bombay was largely dependent on the work of laborers who carried bricks and building materials on wicker baskets on construction sites, much like they do today, which must be part of the reason why they were such common
Cooly Woman
The original black and white postcard predating the color version.
Happy
A truly multi-purpose postcard by Paul Gerhardt.
