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Moat & Defensive Walls of Fort St George Madras, 1900 Photo A 1900 glass slide photo of the moat and the breached walls of Fort St George during British era Madras (Chennai). The image shows a wide and deep moat with a glimpse of an unusual breach of the Fort’s thick defensive walls exposing its brickwork. [...]
View of Calcutta's River Hooghly, GPO & High Court, 1880 Photo An old 1880 photo of Calcutta's River Hooghly with a view of GPO and High Court. The photo gives a view of the Calcutta General Post Office (GPO), the High Court, and other buildings further up. What looks like a church steeple is obscurely visible [...]
Undeveloped Marine Drive & Colaba View From Malabar Hill, 1855 An old 1855 print with a view of the undeveloped Marine Drive and Colaba from Malabar Hill. This is a page from the French publication "Le Monde Illustre" from around 1855 or earlier. The view also features the future Chowpatty Beach where some people seem to [...]
Apollo Bunder Before Building the Gateway In Bombay, 1880 Photo An old 1880 photo of Apollo Bunder before the Gateway of India in Bombay (Mumbai) was built there. Many already know that Bombay once comprised of a group of seven separate islands. The Portuguese were the first European colonists of the Bombay islands from around 1534 [...]
Amusing Diversion of Indian Servant British India, 1907 PC An old 1907 postcard shows an amusing diversion of an Indian servant in the British India era. The servant certainly tipsy after drinking from his white master's bottle of whisky. Britons typically lived in quite spacious bungalows with a number of servants to manage the household. [...]
French Colonies In India, 1858 Map This 1858 map shows the French colonies in India. The colonies include those that are underlined in red, on the west coast are Mahe and Calicut (now Kozhikode). On the eastern coast is Karikal, Pondicherry, Yanaon (Yanam), Balasore, Chandernagore (Chandannagar), Dacca (Dhaka). This map seems to be an eye-opener regarding [...]
Five Street Scenes Of British Era Madras, 5 Postcards 1900 Five old 1900 postcards of different street scenes of British-era Madras (now Chennai). We already know that Madras was once a fishing village. That in 1638 the East India Company, sent Francis Day to the village to select a better site for their headquarters. In 1639 Francis Day [...]
Bombay Coastline With The Taj Mahal Hotel - 4 Postcard 1906 Four old photo postcards from 1905 to 1910 of the Bombay (Mumbai) coastline that show the Taj Mahal Hotel. However, the Gateway of India does not seem to be conspicuous on the Bombay coastline simply because it was not constructed at that time. The Gateway was constructed [...]
