Fakirs
[Original caption] Fakirs. The Fakirs are a large body of religious fanatics. They go naked or in filthy rags, and partake only of the meanest food, and that without request or thanks.
Women
Tanjore dancing girl
Among the first series of postcards printed in India by The Ravi Varma Press, this lithograph by the German artist at the Press, Paul Gerhardt, shows how in these very early days, placing the title was not quite fixed by convention, It could easily
A model of Punjab beauty
A striking distinctive portrait, nicely silhouetted at the bottom, with the richness of the collotype making her seem photographic.
8 Dismissed
The eighth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
7 False defense.
The seventh card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
10 New maid-servant
The tenth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [First]
9 Reconciliation at last
The ninth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
6. What is this
The sixth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
1 Young Maid Servant
The most interesting of his Dhurandhar's later postcards were printed by The Lakshmi Art Printing Press. The Press belonged to Dadasaheb Phalke (1870–1944), a businessman who once worked at the Ravi Varma Press and had been a student at the J.J.
2 At First Sight
The second card in Dhurandhar's Coquettish Maid Servant Series. [Next]
