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Paper Jewels Postcards From The Raj
This is the story of postcard during the Raj, and covers India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Burma. The first book on this subject, it is also the first to show hundreds of professionally restored images in original format. The volume uncovers such gems as the early postcards of the great Indian painter M V Dhurandhar and the Ravi Varma Press, the exceptional work of an early Austrian Lithographer in Kolkata or a German one in Mumbai. The essays cover the major cities and regions important to postcard publishing and the key themes from religion to dancers to tea, soap, famines, fakirs, humour and warfare. The volume displays the most beautiful and popular postcards, telling the stories of the first postcard publishers in the subcontinent between 1892 and 1947.
