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A recent exhibition at London's SOAS university showcased more than 300 such postcards that were sent from India to Europe between 1900 and the 1930s.
"We don't want the postcards to be a vehicle of colonial nostalgia. It is the opposite of that," Stephen Putnam Hughes, a co-curator of the exhibition told the BBC. "We wanted to provide enough evidence from the colonial past and allow people to look at the images critically."
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French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
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French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various front
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
French Postcards of 1914- 1917 captured many Indian troops as they landed at Marseille & were dispatched to their slaughter on various fronts
Date :2020-07-08
November, 1869 - An international canal finally constructed. Initial idea was seeded by Napolean. His love for history ( found ancient canal circuit from phoenician/ greek maritime era) & a desire to build an empire which included India
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A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the Way of China, by Thomas and William Daniell, 1810
Travel accounts and hand coloured aquatints of the places visited by the Daniells on their journey from England to China and onwards to Bengal and Calcutta between 1784-6.
A Picturesque tour along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India, by Lt.Col. Charles Ramus Forrest, 1824.
Travel accounts of an Indian tour in 1807, motivated by "a desire to explore Bengal's grander and wilder beauties, and other enchanting features of India, eternally glowing in the brilliant glory of the resplendent Asiatic sun.â€
Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four and Twenty years in the East with Revelations of Life in the Zenana, by Lady Fanny Parkes, 1850
“Roaming about with a good tent and a good Arab horse, one might be happy forever in Indiaâ€. Fanny Parkes’ writings and illustrations convey her enthusiasm and fondness for India and its people, as she travelled the country extensively between 1822–1845.
Picturesque India: A Handbook for European Travellers, by W.S Caine, 1890
A collection of essays and images of India’s main sights for the British tourist. “I only try to rouse superficial interest, by a plain statement of what may be seen by an ordinary traveller, in the most accessible parts of British India...my longest excursion does not leave the Railroad by more than fifty miles, and none of the places described are inaccessible to a British tourist in good health.â€
A bird's eye-view of Picturesque India, by Sir Richard Temple, 1898
Travel account with 32 illustrations as slides for a view-finder.— in India.
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The Austrian Postal Administration authorised the world's first government postal card, known as Correspondz Karte on October 1, 1869.
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At the height of the British Empire, came significant changes in the landscape of India - formation of new capital cities in the plains and summer retreats in the hills, evolution of towns ornagores, growth of cantonment towns with their military and civil lines, development of ports orpattanamsand creation of cultural, educational and trading centres, all increasingly well connected by an expensive rail, road, and later on air network. Bombay, for instance, was the largest, most populous and enterprising city of the British Empire.
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October 2018 - Picturesque India : A Journey in Early Picture Postcards ( 1896 - 1947) by Sangeeta & Ratnesh Mathur , Niyogi Books, Printed in India - The story of India in Picture Postcards covering 130+ cities - Such visual documentation of most European countries & even many European cities is already available in books & blogs. Several Asian & American country picture postcard history books too have been written. Finally, we have an Indian deltiology primer. This book includes a list of nearly a hundred early Printer Publishers/Photographers of the first picture postcards of India, with details on their chronology & locations. For collectors, hobbyists & anyone keen to pick up bargains on precious antiques off eBay & other postcard sellers, this book is a must-have - a touchstone of Indian Picture Postcards.— in India.
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The Sacred Heart Church at Chandernagore river front. In 1673, the French set up a trading post in Chandernagore, on the banks of the Hooghly. 1757. They lost it to the British in 1816 & then won it back. Chandernagore town, 50 kilometres from today's Calcutta, remained a French territory till 1950.
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A pre-1907 postcard published by Clifton & Co., Bombay, one of India’s first few printers of complex collotype postcards featuring topographical views & Indian people engaged in different professions. Clifton & Co., played a key role in the transition from lithographic artist drawn images to photographs as the primary source for Indian postcards.
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During the 1920-30s, the Southern Mahratta Railway connected Poona to Portuguese Goa via Wathar. Alternatively, one could take the steamer from Bombay or Calcutta. City Views clicked by the local Photographic studio Souza & Paul Fotografos, were used extensively on the postcards of Goa such as the one featured above.
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A 1927 postcard of a picturesque early morning view of the Taj Mahal from Mehtab Bagh, lithographed in Austria by Ludwig Hans Fischer. Paintings of landscape artists who arrived in India in the late 19th century, were often reproduced as lithographic postcards to be sent with a brief personal message to friends and family across the globe.