British Indian Picture Postcards in Bengaluru: Ephemeral Entanglements

Examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary historical imagination in India. Shows that the life of picture postcards stretch from their initial production and consumption in the early 1900s into the present Illustrates how picture postcards act as visual and material mediators in postcolonial productions of history, locality and heritage against a backdrop of intense urban change.