Indian troops in France brought their own music bands which created great interest among the French, who attended concerts in towns where these men performed. Note the dhols and flutes shown here. As one correspondent wrote: “Mr. G.
A spectacularly well-tinted color postcard. Note how well the colors have been applied by hand via stencils to the carpet the woman is sitting on.
Indian troops in France were supplied by their own cooks and bakers, with the scent of freshly baked naan in tandoori ovens often wafting over the countryside as reported by the journalists who accompanied them.
![Shirshal [Sher Shah] Bridge, Multan](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/shirshal-bridge-multan.jpg?itok=6c5R4IWK "Shirshal [Sher Shah] Bridge, Multan")
The ongest bridge over the Chenab River in western Punjab was built in the early 1870s with thick fortified turrets. Named after a famous Sufi saint in the area, it is still in use.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers from India were recruited to fight with the Allied armies in Europe, Africa and Mesopotamia during World War I, and most passed through Bombay on their way to the front.
[Verso, handwritten in ink] "Magway [sp?] Upper Burma, May 22/18
My dear Bunny
That little letter you penned hasnt come yet, but I am hoping it will reach me soon.
How do you like this hobby [postcard collecting presumably]?
Best love
Daddy x x
There are hundreds of thousands of European graves across the subcontinent, and perhaps thousands of such cemeteries, many attached to churches, and more or less abandoned by the British when they left, and now kept up by locals and private
During the first World War, the Germans held their captives at a number of camps, and Muslims in particular would find themselves at Zossen-Wunsdorf not far from Berlin.
Probably an advertising card on postcard stock, or a trade card that came with some consumer goods, with this caption on the back
[Original caption, trans.
"India, with no less alacrity, has claimed her share in the common task. Every class and creed, British and Native, Princes and People, Hindoos and Mahomedans, vie with one another in a noble and emulous rivalry.
