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Author : Madan Gopal Mukhopadhyay
Release : 2019
Genre : India
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Book Rating : 217/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Old Picture Postcards from the British Raj by : Madan Gopal Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book Old Picture Postcards from the British Raj written by Madan Gopal Mukhopadhyay. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Omar Khan
Release : 2018-05
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Book Synopsis Paper Jewels by : Omar Khan
Download or read book Paper Jewels written by Omar Khan. This book was released on 2018-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The first book on the subject of postcards in the Indian subcontinent* More than 500 professionally restored images* Chapters dedicated to cities and movementsPostcards were to people in 1900 what the Internet was to the world in 2000. The world went from a thousand to a billion postcards in a very short span of time, with the finest painters from India, Austria and Japan getting involved.Paper Jewels is the story of postcards during the Raj, and covers India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Burma. It is the first book on the subject and features hundreds of professionally-restored images in original format, weaving together the postcard artists, photographers, and publishers who define the rich history of the medium. The author's research also charts the history and progression of the technological aspects of postcard publishing and its key players. The concluding chapters explore the role postcards played in the Independence struggle, from the First Non-Cooperation Movement through the Dandi March and Partition. It includes some of the earliest cards of Mahatma Gandhi, Mohammed Ali Jinnah and other political figures. Many of the images in the book have not been seen since they were first published nearly a century ago. Published in association with The Alkazi Collection of Photography.
Author : Sangeeta Mathur
Release : 2019-07-05
Genre : Historic buildings
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Book Rating : 912/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Picturesque India by : Sangeeta Mathur
Download or read book Picturesque India written by Sangeeta Mathur. This book was released on 2019-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The book provides a glimpse of the visual history of India at the beginning of the industrial travel era, a hundred years back* Explore the geographic diversity of 130+ cities through 550 picture postcards of pre-Partition India* The book contains a detailed catalogue of the printers, photographers and publishers of the first picture postcards of IndiaWith the dawn of the twentieth century, at the height of the British Empire, came significant changes in the landscape of India - formation of new capital cities in the plains and summer retreats in the hills, evolution of towns or nagores and pores, growth of cantonment towns with their military and civil lines, development of ports or pattanams and creation of cultural, educational and trading centers, all increasingly well connected by an extensive rail, road and, later on, air network. The 550 postcards featured in this book visually document this growth, while also capturing evidence of earlier times in India's fascinating polytemporal towns. The postcards are divided across six chapters representing six regions within India and Pakistan, as they were a hundred years ago. Through these picture postcards and the supporting text, the readers can vividly imagine what it would have been like to travel by road or rail across India during the period 1896-1947. An attractive and nostalgic record of the topography of the time, these picture postcards are an untapped resource for those interested in the evolution of cities, town planning, architecture, ethnography, sociology or, simply, travel.
Author : Emily Stevenson
Release : 2023-12-18
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 596/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis British Indian Picture Postcards in Bengaluru by : Emily Stevenson
Download or read book British Indian Picture Postcards in Bengaluru written by Emily Stevenson. This book was released on 2023-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining ethnographic and archival research, this book examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary historical imagination in India. Picture postcards were circulated around the world in their billions in the early twentieth century and remained, until the advent of social media, unmatched as the primary means of sharing images alongside personal messages. This book, based on original research in Bengaluru, shows that their lives stretch from their initial production and consumption in the early 1900s into the present where they act as visual and material mediators in postcolonial productions of history, locality, and heritage against a backdrop of intense urban change. The book will be of interest to photographic historians, visual anthropologists, and art historians.
Author : William Fyfe Hendrie
Release : 1987-04-01
Genre : Livingston (Scotland)
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Book Rating : 336/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Livingston in Old Picture Postcards by : William Fyfe Hendrie
Download or read book Livingston in Old Picture Postcards written by William Fyfe Hendrie. This book was released on 1987-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
