Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Kolkata: Calcutta
2. Kolkata: Calcutta Darjeeling
3. Varanasi: Benares
4. Mumbai: Bombay
5. Mumbai: Bombay: The Ravi Varma Press
6. Mumbai: Bombay: M.V. Dhurandhar
7. Kashmir
8. Delhi
9. Delhi: Agra
10. Delhi: Simla
11. Lahore
12. Lahore: Amritsar
13. Lahore: Murree
14. Karachi
15. Karachi: Sindh
16. Karachi: Balochistan
17. Jaipur
18. Chennai: Madras
19. Chennai: Madras: Bengaluru: Bangalore
20. Chennai: Madras: Ootacamund
21. Sri Lanka: Ceylon
22. North West Frontier Province
23. Independence
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Publication
Postcards were to the people in 1900 what the Internet was to the world in 2000. Postcards can be thought of as the world’s first mass transfusion of images. The world went from thousand to a billion postcards in a very short span... Read More
About the Author
Omar Khan has researched early photography and ephemera of the subcontinent for thirty years. Khan’s previous book is From Kashmir to Kabul: The Photographs of John Burke and William Baker 1860-1900 (Prestel/ Gallimard/ Mapin, 200... Read More
