Simla. The Mall and Library.
Were Indians allowed on the Mall in Shimla?
Hillstations
Post Office, Cherat
Illustrated postcards often celebrated the post offices that made their rapid spread possible.
Springtime on Jakko, Simla
Almost invisible in this painted scene are the two men near the center, half-hidden markers of scale, secret rewards for the perceptive postcard viewer.
Simla, looking towards Jakho
Raaja Bhasin, in his Simla The Summer Capital of British India (2011) has a nice quote about Shimla during the Raj and afterwards: "With this detached atmosphere from the rest of India, it is no wonder that the blame for the disasters of the Afghan
On the Ashleigh Road
An atmospherically tinted postcard by the Murree-based photographer and publisher D. Baljee.
Khajiar from Rajas Bungalow, Dalhousie
A gold-framed, oval embossed postcard by a prolific publisher was part of the many types of postcards used by publishers to keep the market satisfied with new fashions and types.
According to Murrays Handbook for India Burma & Ceylon "At 11 m.
In the Simla Bazaar
A painted postcard of Simla, published by the local branch of one of the Raj's major retailers based in Kolkata.
Simla, Annandale
"There is possibly no name connected with Simla which to thousands of Anglo-Indians, past and present, can revive more memories of a pleasant nature than that of Annandale." writes Edward Buck, the longtime resident and master chronicler of the
Savoy Hotel, Mussoorie
Postcards were an important advertising tool for hotels from the mid-1890s, when Alpine hotels in Austria, Germany and Switzerland helped to popularize the medium.
Water Carrier, Chumba
The Princely State of Chamba appeared on few postcards during the Raj even though its rulers seemed to have good relationships with a number of Punjab-based photographers, including Fred Bremner and John Burke.
