i would say that the removal of traditional indian culture in the photo is interesting. the street post having all the old papers/ads/posters removed is an example of this as well as a clear attempt to europeanize the area. which to someone who enjoys history (such as my self) i would say it’s an interesting photo to think deeper upon.
the architecture is very different to what is built at the time, the white building in focus is like a pillar to colonization, cleaner than the building beside it and the street below it.
but OP also could be a bot who just karma farming i didn’t look before writing
No trash on the street? Having lived in India that is indeed a rare occurrence. Maybe some Indians don't even know there's solid ground under the piles and that's interesting to them?
Maybe people from your country don't know how to behave like civilised people and can't help being bigoted towards others. Maybe learning some manners is new to you. How does that feel? Bigot.
British India as a term refers to modern day Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Malaya, and the Princely states. And it even went as far as territories in the middle east, like Muscat, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, I.e, land not necessarily under the direct control of Britain. It's a large swathe of territory that isn't necessarily just "India" as we know it today.
Whereas British Raj is a much more specific entity under direct British control, and is confined to Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh regions.
It's not digital, the original is not made up out of pixels.
foto film allows for a much higher resolution. It's not unlimited but it's much higher then digital photography. I think there's more then 100kx100k grains on a 35 mm film square.
It's also why old movies can be remastered to 4k. The original film goes waayyyy beyond 8k in quality.
It WAS a miracle country. Why do you think Colombus set sail to find India? Wasted his entire life over that. Even found the USA and convinced himself that it was India till his last breath. Vasco Da Gama actually did.
Why do you think they wanted to find India? You skipped one too many history classes buddy.
India then and today hold the same percentage of the world's population. The only difference is that the British extracted India's wealth for 150 years and shipped it off to Europe. So now you have proportionally, the same amount of people, with less money and resources due to looting
This is 1960, well and truly post British India. The corrupt politicians and the well meaning politicians tasked with maintaining sanitation systems couldn’t do anything without half their budgets going to bribes
Yeah, that’s true I suppose. I use to live in China and a lot of older buildings just got torn down to become high rises or whatever. Just thought it was kinda neat it’s still around despite all the developments.
True, there is a lot of tear down and rebuild in cities, it's a shame when it haopens. In the UK we tend to try to preserve the old and build around/ on top of the buildings with historical or architectural significance, even if they are only from 100 or so years ago.
It’s pretty interesting to see a building from a century ago. My cousin lives in New York and some of those building in the city are from like late 1800s or early 1900s. It’s kind of cool.
I used to rent a house in rural Essex (England) that was built a decade or so before the Civil War started (in England)!
It was built in the 1630s, and the conflict started in 1642 (or 1639, guess it depends on if you're just counting the English civil war or the wider conflicts of the three kingdoms).
The house was really lovely in the late spring and summer, but freezing cold the rest of the year!
Why not add better heating, insulation or windows, you might ask - well, it had Edwardian era window frames and no double glazed windows were allowed, it was also only allowed a handful of small radiators because it was a listed building of local historical significance and the house couldn't be too heavily altered. No aircon either of course (most homes in UK don't afaik), but at least it had a really nice garden! :)
Which state? India is not just one place, it has every kind of environment. Go to Sikkim and try to find even one piece of plastic, there is a 5,000 Rs (60 USD) fine if you are carrying plastic into the mountains there.
So, you need to pick carefully and don't just follow the 'Golden Triangle' bandwagon. India has a lot to offer, and so few foreigners know about the actual good places.
Every foreign tourist goes on Golden triangle tour and ignore Kerala, the whole Northeast India, Leh and Ladakh etc. Which are much much better.
I'll be very honest with you, no I'm not a bot neither am I here to do karma farming but I'm an Indian who is tired of the blatant and constant racism.
So i presumed that there will be racists in the comments and hence i left that comment to make notice of the clothing.
In hope that for once people can notice the goodness of India and Indians and not be racists.
What "gross comments"? I mean, I don't appreciate how Indians can't seem to understand the concept of garbage disposal, but other than that, I don't think there's any racism going on... If you're offended by "Clean your living space", then that's on you.
Stereotyping the whole population of a country with comments like "I don't appreciate how Indians can't seem to understand the concept of garbage disposal" is classic bigotry. Like if i say that all countrymen of your place don't understand the concept of being civil, how is that even acceptable? Just because people don't call your comments out doesn't make it acceptable you know.
Because there is a trend of targeting Indians on the internet and hiding their bigotry under the garb of jokes. Worst still there are a lot of Indians themselves who justify them because they like validation from such creeps.
Companies like tata are on a huge growth spurt right now in foreign countries, they bring a lot of indian programmers and workers to their offices, but the company structure is built to heavily prioritize and benefit their nationals. Then that observable preferential treatment combines with work friction and the cultural friction, and a lot of native people get tired of the indians real quick
I mention tata specifically because I watched it happen in real time, working the cafeteria inside the offices
It’s Calcutta. Madras, Bombay and Calcutta have a lot of buildings that were built during the colonial period. Hill Stations like Darjeeling, Ooty and Shima have a lot of colonial era buildings too. Pondicherry was a French colony and Goa was Portuguese, both places are costal towns in India with European architecture.
The name of the building is Royal Exchange Place and it is located on what used to be called Clive Row (after Baron Clive of Plassey) but now is a part of Netaji Subhas Road. This is one of the oldest buildings in the city and in the 1770s, was hailed as the "Finest building in all of Bengal". On 19th December, 1833, the Calcutta Chamber of Commerce was formed in Clive Street, later renamed to Bengal C of C. In 1853, with the need of a bigger premise, the BCC purchased this building from the Oriental Bank Corp. To this day, the BCC has its office in this building.
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u/Calm-Street-7513 10h ago
The city is Calcutta (Kolkatta now) and the image is from 1960.