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Pioneers of Indian Photography
Maharajahs in Postcards
Modern India is said to have been born in 1858, after the famous Mutiny. From this time onwards the government was transferred from the British East India Company to direct Crown Rule with Lord Canning being appointed as the first Viceroy and Governor General.Read more
Shimla in Old Postcards
The British occupation of India lasted just under two hundred years, and by the beginning of the last century, life there was being recorded on postcards to be sent by the thousand back home to England.Read more
Samuel Bourne's Colonial Legacy
Researcher Julienne Pascoe discusses a set of seven personal albums of Samuel Bourne that recently came together thanks to the vagaries of collecting and the auction market. An extensive, thoughtful analysis of this rare find. There are few similar opportunities to see what Raj photographers themselves treasured.
Quetta in Old Postcards
The frontier town of Quetta lies only miles from both the Afghan and Iranian borders with the Bolan Pass running straight to Kandahar in one direction and the heartland of Pakistan in the other; it is tucked in the south west corner of Pakistan giving it a strategic military position.Read more
Hyderabad in Old Postcards
The City of Hyderabad in central India may seem an unlikely city to be the subject of a postcard related article but it is a very interesting city, steeped in history famous for its minarets and its pearl bazaar. Pearls from all over the world are said to come to Hyderabad because the artisans of the city are skilled in piercing and stringing pearls without damaging them.Read more
Souvenirs of Asia
A 1994 article from the George Eastman House IMAGE magazine recently made available as a PDF. Published in connection with a Photokina exhibition, it includes a long article on photography in India, China and Japan and brief biographies of photographers.Read more
Old Postcards from Pakistan
by Liz McKendrick
Pakistan is very much in the news these days as it shares part of its border with Afghanistan. News reporters are seen standing in cities near the border such as Quetta or Peshawar – names that bring back images of the Afghan wars of the 19th Century when Britain first sent a military presence to this part of the world.Read more
Phantasmagoric Aesthetics
by Zahid Chaudhary
A detailed, insightful examination of Beato's famous photographs from Lucknow in March 1858 showing skeletons and the remnants of battles just fought in the city.Read more
Early Postcards of Tibet 3
The final article in a series of three on Tibetan postcards, their subjects and makers originally published in 2009 in Picture Postcard Monthly.Read more
bungalow
s. H. and Mahr. banglā. The most usual class of house occupied by Europeans in the interior of India; being on one story, and covered by a pyramidal roof, which in the normal bungalow is of thatch, but may be of tiles without impairing its title to be called a bungalow.