Picturesque India: A Journey in Early Picture Postcards (1896-1947)
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Authors: Sangeeta Mathur, Ratnesh Mathur
9789385285912 | HB | pp. 420 | 2018 | Niyogi Books
Picturesque India visually documents the beginning of the industrial travel era and geographical diversity of pre-Partition India.
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With 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 centres, 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 evidences 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 back. 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.
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| Authors: | Sangeeta Mathur, Ratnesh Mathur |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9789385285912 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| Pages: | 420 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Publisher: | Niyogi Books |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
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