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Overland Route To India Before Opening Of The Suez Canal, 1851 Map. A rare 1851 map showing the overland route to India before the opening of the Suez Canal. The illustrated engravings on the map show Post Office London, Bombay, Madras, Aden, Gibraltar, and the mail crossing the desert. The Suez Canal opened in 1869 it [...]
Origin Of The British East India Company, 1903 Print An old 1903 print shows an agent of the British India Company in the court of the Great Mughal. The Great Mughal depicted here is Akbar, and the Englishman is Sir John Mildenhall. In 1599 the Dutch, who controlled the East India trade, raised the price of [...]
Panoramic View of Cochin Port, 1948 Postcard An old 1948 photo postcard with a panoramic view of Cochin Harbour and the port office. "The history of civilization is written largely in the history of its ports." Famous words by Robert Bristow, the architect of Willingdon Island the largest man-made island in India. Cochin, now Kochi has [...]
Ernakulam High Court Boat Jetty, 1935 Photo A rare 1935 photo of the High Court Boat Jetty at Ernakulam (Kochi). A rare view of the High Court Boat Jetty, although the High Court was not established at the time. It came into existence only in 1956, after the formation of Kerala State by merging Travancore, Cochin [...]
Portuguese Church In Santhome Madras, 1900 Postcard A 1900 oilette postcard of the Portuguese church of Santhome in Madras, now Chennai. Many assume that the British were the first to establish a colony in Madras. But that was not the case, the Portuguese were the first to arrive. They opened a settlement in the coastal village [...]
Bombay Welcomes King George & Queen Mary, 1911 A rare photo 1911 photo of King George V and Queen Mary welcomed in Bombay, now Mumbai. King-Emperor George V and Queen Mary landed at Apollo Bunder Pier to attend the Delhi Durbar in 1911. The main objective was to attend the Delhi Durbar in honor of King [...]
Old Book 1934 – A Guide To Elephanta. Title – A Guide To Elephanta Author – Hirananda Sastri Publishers – Manager of Publications, Delhi Year – 1934 Perhaps only a few may be unaware of the Elephanta Caves in India. The first Europeans to discover Elephanta Caves were the Portuguese. The cave is situated off the [...]
Old Book 1892 - Albuquerque Title - Albuquerque Author - H Morse Stephens Publisher - Oxford Year - 1892 The arrival of Vasco Da Gama in Calicut in 1498 was in search of the famed spice, pepper (or black gold). This enabled the Portuguese to find the long sought out route to India. In 1505, Francisco De [...]
