Postmarked Bombay
Postmarked Bombay

Author: Harriet Claiborne

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2023-10-25

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13:

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Twenty-four-year-old Harry Witt did the unthinkable in 1937 when he left his family and sweetheart, Idie Lacy, in Houston, Texas, to take a job halfway around the world in British Colonial India. Adventurous tales of tiger hunts, rickety train rides, and a birthday with a maharajah mix with humorous anecdotes of rural village life and brokering cotton to fill Harry’s letters home, giving Idie a unique glimpse of life in a strange land with a Texas twist. Then Idie also did the unthinkable in 1939, taking a month-long sea voyage to marry Harry in Bombay. Their stories speak of learning to cope with each other and with life in a foreign culture and a faraway place. Idie was subsequently evacuated from India during World War II, while Harry stayed, working on a mission for his company and his country. His business contacts with Hindu, Muslim and English merchants helped him procure strategic materials for the Allies. Along the way, he interacted with everyone from peasants to maharajas and trekked into Nepal with a colleague, the first white men to do so.

The Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia and the Gulf
The Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia and the Gulf

Author: Neil Donaldson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-09-16

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1409209423

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This volume is reproduced by kind permission of Neil Donaldson and HH Sales Ltd.. It is the central text for Arabian Gulf (Persian Gulf) States postal history and it provides the 'numbering system' used by those involved in this collecting area. If you are interested in Muscat, Oman, Guadur, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi or, more generally, the BPAEA then this volume is valuable reading.The book is, essentially, a reprint of the first edition which was published in 1975. Due to the quality and method of printing the original edition (and limitations imposed by how this version was created) some images lack detail.Time has added further information; the 'Supplement' can be acquired elsewhere.This book is the key text for those wishing to understand the postal history of this area, but it is more than a dry postal history reference book--it is also a great read!

Vadophil
Vadophil

Author: Baroda Philatelic Society

Publisher: Baroda Philatelic Society

Published:

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13:

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Architecture of Shame
Architecture of Shame

Author: Ho Kwon Cjan

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

Published: 2019-09-15

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9814868671

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Award-winning architect Ho Kwon Cjan has a wicked sense of humour and a keen interest in history. This book combines his passions, with a big dose of sheer cheek. In Architecture of Shame, the author ‘reveals’ little-known details about famous buildings around the world, such as how India’s Taj Mahal was intended to have two domes and that the Eiffel Tower, in France, once wore fig leaves. Some of the information is startling and unheard of, not least because they were drawn from the author’s vivid imagination. Each of the 28 chapters features a building of significant historical interest and tells an alternative background story behind its development and construction in a mischevious blend of leg-pull and tall tales. Also included are the author’s original illustrations of what might have been. This book will be of interest to architects, people with an interest in history – and anyone with a sense of humour.

The Lap of The Gods
The Lap of The Gods

Author: Earl A. Fiddler

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2024-07-19

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13:

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The Lap of the Gods is rich in history and tells of a time gone by when the rajahs were the kings of the individual states of India. This book is filled with intrigue and suspense. This unforgettable tale of coups and corruption and deceit and murder leads the rajah Gopal Chand and his lovely young wife, Joyotee, into a life experience at the hands of those persons of their very own household that no one would ever want to journey through. There are many important life lessons woven into this book, because the writer was not only a doctor in India, but also a missionary, and this book reflects his wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge of human nature in a way the reader will never forget.

Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies
Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies

Author: Kristen Rudisill

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2022-10-01

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1438489773

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Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies is the first in-depth study of Sabha Theater, a type of Tamil-language popular theater that started in Chennai (Madras) in the period following India's independence, thriving especially between 1965 and 1985. Breaking new ground in the study of stage and performance, this interdisciplinary book presents a complex view of a significant genre, using historical research and ethnographic information obtained through interviews with performers, writers, and audience members, as well as observations of rehearsals, performances, and television and film shootings. This careful coverage not only contextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and aesthetically within the wider history of the Tamil stage and a performance scene that includes classical dance and mass media but also reveals how its plays express a Tamil Brahmin identity that is at once traditional and modern. Analyzing what particular plays mean to the specific, urban, elite Brahmin community that produces and consumes them, Kristen Rudisill examines humor that reveals a complex Brahmin identity and surveys markers of moral superiority.