Home - Past-India

Homedevmaster2020-10-17T17:04:38+05:30

devmaster2022-08-08T04:28:10+05:30

First White Man To Climb Dome Of Taj Mahal, Old Photo 1927

Gallery

First White Man To Climb Dome Of Taj Mahal, Old Photo 1927

First White Man To Climb Dome Of Taj Mahal, Old Photo 1927 An old 1927 news photo of the ....read more

Learn More

devmaster2022-08-04T18:36:05+05:30

Hotel D’Angelis In British Era Madras, Old PC 1908

Hotel D’Angelis In British Era Madras, Old PC 1910

Gallery

Hotel D’Angelis In British Era Madras, Old PC 1910

Hotel D'Angelis In British Era Madras, Old PC 1910 Old 1908 photo postcard of the popular Hotel D'Angelis in British ....read more

Learn More

devmaster2022-08-02T19:07:51+05:30

Kalka Shimla Railway & Toy Train, 2 Old PC 1903

Gallery

Kalka Shimla Railway & Toy Train, 2 Old PC 1903

Kalka Shimla Railway & Toy Train, 2 Old PC 1903 Two old 1903 photo postcards of the Kalka Shimla Railway ....read more

Learn More

devmaster2022-07-31T17:50:55+05:30

Lady Hardinge War Hospital Mumbai, Old Postcard 1915

Lady Hardinge War Hospital Mumbai, Old PC 1915

Gallery

Lady Hardinge War Hospital Mumbai, Old PC 1915

Lady Hardinge War Hospital Mumbai, Old PC 1915 An old 1915 photo postcard of Lady Hardinge War Hospital in Mumbai, ....read more

Learn More

devmaster2022-07-29T16:41:20+05:30

Dead Monarch And The New, Glimpse of British India In 1910

Gallery

Dead Monarch And The New, Glimpse of British India In 1910

Dead Monarch And The New, Glimpse of British India In 1910 Two interesting and rare glimpses of British India from ....read more

Learn More

devmaster2022-08-02T16:54:52+05:30

Barog Station Kalka Shimla Railway, 2 Old PCs 1910

Barog Station Kalka Shimla Railway, 2 Old PCs 1903

Gallery

Barog Station Kalka Shimla Railway, 2 Old PCs 1903

Barog Station Kalka Shimla Railway, 2 Old PCs 1903 There are 2 old postcards one is from 1903 the other ....read more

Learn More

devmaster2022-07-20T15:42:49+05:30

View From Malabar Hill Bombay, Old Postcard 1900

Gallery

View From Malabar Hill Bombay, Old Postcard 1900

View From Malabar Hill Bombay, Old Postcard 1900 Old 1900 photo postcard with a view from Malabar Hill in Bombay, ....read more

Learn More

devmaster2022-07-18T16:04:33+05:30

Old Book 1895 – The English in India (1700-1805)

Gallery

Old Book 1895 – The English in India (1700-1805)

Old Book 1895 - The English in India (1700-1805) Title- Les Anglais Dans L'Inde (The English In India (1700-1805) Language- ....read more

Learn More

devmaster2022-07-18T12:50:15+05:30

Prince of Wales George V Tour of India, Old Print 1906

Gallery

Prince of Wales George V Tour of India, Old Print 1906

Prince of Wales George V Tour of India, Old Print 1906 In continuation with my last post on Prince of ....read more

Learn More

devmaster2022-07-26T07:25:20+05:30

George Prince of Wales In India, Old Print 1906

Gallery

George Prince of Wales In India, Old Print 1906

George Prince of Wales In India, Old Print 1906 Prince of Wales George V accompanied by his wife Princess of ....read more

Learn More

This blog illustrates a Past-India through my personal collection of antique and vintage mediums of Raja Ravi Varma oleographs, old India photos, old India postcards, old India paper prints…

Although the collection may or may not be too varied, but gives a general reflection on what India looked like in the past. And how it has evolved till today. Few would realize that once there were Trams in Bombay, Madras, Delhi…

That, Madras operated the first electric Tram in India from 1895 up to its closure in 1953. Calcutta and Bombay had initially started off with Horse-Drawn Trams before the 1900s, and both electrifying it later.

That, in World War II, they scaffolded the Taj Mahal as a camouflage against possible air attacks from the Germans and Japanese. All in all, the jewel in my collection is the rare Raja Ravi Varma’s “Birth of Shakuntala” oleograph or chromolithograph of 1894. This was the first oleograph to come out from the then newly opened Raja Ravi Varma Fine Arts Lithograph Press(or FAL press) of 1894.

Some legacies of the British Raj are not missed out in this collection. Buildings, monuments, streets, railways, transportation… Many of these buildings and streets have gone through several makeovers to the extent of being unrecognizable today or have completely disappeared. But the memories are kept alive hopefully to some extent by this collection.

As they say- “seeing is believing.” I do hope you would enjoy the collection. Please feel free to send in any emails to- info@past-india.com

First White Man To Climb Dome Of Taj Mahal, Old Photo 1927

First White Man To Climb Dome Of Taj Mahal, Old Photo 1927

Hotel D’Angelis In British Era Madras, Old PC 1910

Hotel D’Angelis In British Era Madras, Old PC 1910

Kalka Shimla Railway & Toy Train, 2 Old PC 1903

Kalka Shimla Railway & Toy Train, 2 Old PC 1903

Lady Hardinge War Hospital Mumbai, Old PC 1915

Lady Hardinge War Hospital Mumbai, Old PC 1915

Dead Monarch And The New, Glimpse of British India In 1910

Dead Monarch And The New, Glimpse of British India In 1910

Barog Station Kalka Shimla Railway, 2 Old PCs 1903

Barog Station Kalka Shimla Railway, 2 Old PCs 1903

View From Malabar Hill Bombay, Old Postcard 1900

View From Malabar Hill Bombay, Old Postcard 1900

Old Book 1895 – The English in India (1700-1805)

Old Book 1895 – The English in India (1700-1805)

Prince of Wales George V Tour of India, Old Print 1906

Prince of Wales George V Tour of India, Old Print 1906

George Prince of Wales In India, Old Print 1906

George Prince of Wales In India, Old Print 1906

Past India

Contact us: