Kandyan lady
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An early postcard of the large complex of Jain temples in Gujarat state. There are nearly 1,000 temples in a complex near Palitana in Bhavnagar district which is about 1,000 years old and receives hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
A storied building, still standing, which was everything from a Governor's residence to Admiralty House and the first High Court of Bombay.
Note how this advertisement for family life in the cantonment shows a woman and pram on the verandah.
A very nicely composed collotype, with the road leading the eye into the dense scene from the foreground.
A very early postcard of fakirs or sadhus, usually shown individually in close-up. Combridge & Co.
[Original caption] Government House - Calcutta has been called a City of palaces: Government House is the Palace of the Viceroy.
A variety of Adivasi people (as well as officials and a soldier in the center) as part of a rich forest surrounding. Hobson-Jobson (1906) gave this definition
"BHEEL, (p. 91) BHEEL, n.p. Skt. Bhilla; H. Bhīl. The name of a race inhabiting the hills
One of the most ancient of occupations, showing in the background what must be the larger human ecosystem that depends on the potter's labor.
[Original caption] A Begging Fakir.