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Hindle Wakes By Harold Brighouse 1920's Vintage Novels

Vintage Book – Hindle Wakes By Harold Brighouse

Vintage Book - Hindle Wakes By Harold Brighouse Vintage Book: Hindle Wakes By Harold Brighouse. They have adapted this book ....read more

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Vintage Book – Parry’s Of Madras By Hilton Brown

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Vintage Book – Parry’s Of Madras By Hilton Brown

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Vintage Book - Parry's Of Madras By Hilton Brown Book Title: Parry's Of Madras Author: Hilton Brown Pages: 347 including ....read more

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Maharaja of Bikaner & Lord Mountbatten, 1948 Photo

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Maharaja of Bikaner & Lord Mountbatten, 1948 Photo

Old India Photos, Other India Photos

Maharaja of Bikaner & Lord Mountbatten, 1948 Photo A 1948 photo of Maharaja of Bikaner and Lord Mountbatten. The Maharaja ....read more

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Antique Print Durbar Of The Maharajah Of Travancore

Maharajah Of Travancore’s Durbar – 2 Old Prints 1852

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Maharajah Of Travancore’s Durbar – 2 Old Prints 1852

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Interior of Colonial Bungalow In British Era Bombay, 1883 Photo

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Interior of Colonial Bungalow In British Era Bombay, 1883 Photo

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Interior of Colonial Bungalow In British Era Bombay, 1883 Photo An 1883 photo of the interior of a colonial bungalow ....read more

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Painting of Fort St George British Era Madras 1851

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Painting of Fort St George British Era Madras 1851

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Painting of Fort St George British Era Madras 1851. A well-preserved 1851 watercolor painting of Fort St George, during the ....read more

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Map of Princely State of Cochin & Harbor c1833

Princely State of Cochin And Harbour – Old Map 1833

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Princely State of Cochin And Harbour – Old Map 1833

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Princely State of Cochin And Harbour - Old Map 1833 This is the map of the princely state of Cochin, ....read more

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Antique Print India Baroda Bullock Driven Tram & FDC

First Narrow Gauge Railway In India, Old Print 1863

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First Narrow Gauge Railway In India, Old Print 1863

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1800s Hand Colored Print of Jama Masjid & Outskirts Delhi

The Outskirts Of Delhi Jama Masjid – Old Print 1800s

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The Outskirts Of Delhi Jama Masjid – Old Print 1800s

Old India Prints, Other India Prints

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Nazi Germany’s Map of Bombay With Eagle & Swastika Seal 1940s

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Nazi Germany’s Map of Bombay With Eagle & Swastika Seal 1940s

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This site illustrates a past India through a collection of antique and vintage mediums of Raja Ravi Varma oleographs, old India photos, old postcards, old paper prints, and so on.

Although the collection may or may not be too varied, but generally projects a glimpse to what India looked like in the past. And how it has evolved since then. 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. With Calcutta and Bombay starting off with Horse-Drawn Trams, later electrifying them by the early 1900s.

That, in World War II, they camouflaged the Taj Mahal with bamboo scaffoldings. So as to project it as a construction site that perhaps would fool any air attacks from the Germans and Japanese might, although this never happened. All in all, the jewel in this 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) in 1894.

The many legacies of the British Raj are not missed out in this collection. Many of the buildings and streets have gone through several makeovers to the extent of being unrecognizable today or have completely disappeared from the scene. But the memories are kept alive hopefully to some extent by this collection.

As they say- “seeing is believing.” Hope you enjoy this collection. Please write to us at- info@past-india.com

Vintage Book – Hindle Wakes By Harold Brighouse

Vintage Book – Hindle Wakes By Harold Brighouse

Vintage Book – Parry’s Of Madras By Hilton Brown

Vintage Book – Parry’s Of Madras By Hilton Brown

Maharaja of Bikaner & Lord Mountbatten, 1948 Photo

Maharaja of Bikaner & Lord Mountbatten, 1948 Photo

Maharajah Of Travancore’s Durbar – 2 Old Prints 1852

Maharajah Of Travancore’s Durbar – 2 Old Prints 1852

Interior of Colonial Bungalow In British Era Bombay, 1883 Photo

Interior of Colonial Bungalow In British Era Bombay, 1883 Photo

Painting of Fort St George British Era Madras 1851

Painting of Fort St George British Era Madras 1851

Princely State of Cochin And Harbour – Old Map 1833

Princely State of Cochin And Harbour – Old Map 1833

First Narrow Gauge Railway In India, Old Print 1863

First Narrow Gauge Railway In India, Old Print 1863

The Outskirts Of Delhi Jama Masjid – Old Print 1800s

The Outskirts Of Delhi Jama Masjid – Old Print 1800s

Nazi Germany’s Map of Bombay With Eagle & Swastika Seal 1940s

Nazi Germany’s Map of Bombay With Eagle & Swastika Seal 1940s

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