An indigenous cooling device adopted by the sahibs was the installation of tatties made of khus-khus grass over all openings — windows and doors — of a house. Tatties were kept continually wet by a bhishtee,
BY CONSTANTLY WETTING WITH POT FULL OF WATER A WALL TO WALL 'TATTIE' MADE OF 'VETTIVER' GRASS ;ROOM WAS COOLED TO TOLERABLE TEMPERATURE Tatties[MAT] made of khus khusSummer Curtain Made with Vetiver Roots
water carrier, engaged to throw water against these from outside. bhishtee,or a water carrier,
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- native ice produced in ice pits
during winter nights and preserved for the summer, entailing colossal wastage. Small earthen pots filled with water were placed in an open field, and in the morning the coating of ice formed in the cold temperature of the night was collected and stored in ice-pits.
Icepits near Allahabad. Drawing by Fanny Parks c. 1830
the name gives it a way doesn't it just as it suggest there were Seven Bungalows located here among the mangroves and trees, a place one with nature with the beach at the doorstep.
Six of the seven bungalows have been sold off to make way for buildings, but yet one of them still stands
Dadabhai Naoroji by Raja Ravi Varma
Painting of Dadabhai Naoroji at Sri Chitra Art Gallery, Thiruvananthapuram by Raja Ravi Varma, Great Indian Painter.
HE WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE PRESENT RULING PARTY -INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
BUT HIS BUNGALOW NAMED THE SANDS AT SEVEN BUNGALOWS WAS SOLD OFF TO A BUILDER ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO AND DEMOLISHED
The Story of The Yoga Institute AT DADA BHAI'S BUNGALOW AT SEVENBUNGALOWS,ANDHERI WEST ,MUMBAI 61
R. P. Masani stumbled upon some of Yogendraji’s translations of Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore, and he invited Yogendraji to his place in Versova. There Yogendraji met Homi Dadina, son-in-law of Dadabhai Naoroji. Mr. Dadina became so impressed with the yogi that he along with a few others started learning Yoga at theVersovaBeach.
And with this, on Christmas Day, 25th December, 1918, the Yoga Institute was born at ‘The Sands’ the residence of Dadabhai Naoroji at Versova near Bombay where Yogendraji began sharing the secrets of Yoga among the common
[BUT THE BUNGALOW ''THE SANDS' AT SEVEN BUNGALOWS WAS SOLD OFF TO A BUILDER ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO AND DEMOLISHED ]
A GARDEN NEAR TO HIS BUNGALOW ,ALSO CALLED DADABHAI NAWROJI GARDEN -ALSO KNOWN AS THE ROUND GARDEN OF 7 BUNGALOWS (NOT NANA NANI PARK) IS IN BAD SHAPE NOW ; BECAUSE BOMBAY MUNCIPAL CORPORATION SAYS IT HAS NO MONEY TO LOOK AFTER THE GARDEN
MEANWHILE THE GARDEN WASGIVEN TO A BUILDER FOR UPKEEP BY THE B.M.C. SINCE LAST 6YEARS ;ON CONDITION THE BUILDER CAN USE 20% OF THE GARDEN FOR COMMERCIAL USE ,BUT THE PRESENT KEEPER IS NEGLECTING THE GARDEN ,MAY BE TO DESTROY IT; WITH SOME ULTERIOR MOTIVE
THIS IS HOW WE LOOK AFTER HERITAGE PROPERTY AT THIS RATE NEXT CENTURY INDIANS WILL ASK WHY WE ALLOWED ALL THIS TO HAPPEN
MOST SURPRISING IS THAT THE DESTRUCTION OF "THE SANDS" BUNGALOW AT SEVEN BUGALOWS OF THE FOUNDER OF INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS PARTY[THE RULING PARTY] TOOK PLACE UNDER CONGRESS GOVERNMENT ,
THE PRESENT CONTINUING NEGLECT AND DESTRUCTION OF THE PARK ;[ALSO NAMED DADABHAI NOWROJI GARDEN -OR-D.N.GARDEN];NEXT TO THE DEMOLISHED BUNGALOW IS CONTINUING -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji
Near Flora Fountain, Bombay.
A detail from the Dadabhai Naoroji statue on D. N. Road.
D A D A B H AI N A O R O J I: The Grand Old Man of India by R. P. M A S A N I With a Foreword by M A H A T MA G A N D HI =========================================
THE RED ARROW SHOWS D.N.GARDEN ALSO KNOWN AS SEVEN BUNGALOW GARDEN ;;NAMED AFTER THE "GRAND OLD MAN OF INDIA" MR DADA BHAI NAOROJI ;THE FOUNDER OF INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS PARTY IN 1885
The city’s original 16 milestones, that are spread across the city were installed over two hundred years ago and served as the backbone of the seven islands that once Mumbai was. According to civic records, the one at Dadar reads as VII miles and was placed between 1816 and 1837.
The latest list of the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority's Heritage committee lists 16 original milestones, including the one kept in the premise of the Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Byculla.
I MILE
3 MILES
4 MILES
These milestones were built between 1816-1837 and these basalt stones, originally three or four feet tall, mark the distance in miles from St Thomas’s Church (today St Thomas’s Cathedral at Fort) which, in the eighteenth century, comprised the city-centre. This means they measure the distance of a particular location from the city's centre.
Of the 16 milestones listed, many are missing or have sunken into the ground during various road-widening projects or footpath building projects. BMC's heritage committee chairperson Dinesh Afzalpurkar, however, refused to comment on the issue.
Bhangarh (Devanāgarī: भानगढ़) is a town known for its historical ruins, situated in the Alwar district of the state of Rajasthan, India.
Legend has it that due to a curse of Guru Balu Nath, the whole town was vacated overnight. Balu Nath sanctioned the establishment of the town but said: "The moment the shadows of your palaces touch me, the city shall be no more!" Ignorant of such foreboding, one ambitious descendant raised the palace to such a height that its shadow reached Balu Nath's forbidden retreat and the town was devastated. The small samādhi where Balu Nath lies buried is still there.
The other myth is as follows: The charm of princess of Bhangarh Ratnavati was said to be matchless in all of Rajasthan. Being eighteen years old, the princess started getting matrimonial offers from other states. In the same region there lived a tantrik, a magician well versed in the occult, named Singhia who was desperately in love with the princess knowing that he would never be allowed to even see her, let alone meet her. One day, he saw the princess' maid in the market buying scented oil for her. Seeing this, he got an idea by which he could meet the princess. He used his black magic and put a spell on the oil which would hypnotize the princess by her merely touching the oil, and she would surrender herself. The princess foiled this plan though. She had seen the tantrik enchanting the oil, and she therefore threw it away, whereupon the flagon rolled over a stone. As soon as the oil touched the stone, it started rolling towards the wicked tantrik and crushed him. While dying, Singhia cursed the palace with the death of all who dwelt in it, without any rebirth in their destinies. The very next year there was a battle between Bhangarh and Ajabgarh and no one survived, not even the princess Ratnavati.
Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has put up a signboard at Bhangarh stating (among others): "Entering the borders of Bhangarh before sunrise and after sunset is strictly prohibited."
Some people who visit this place say that there is a strange feeling in the atmosphere of Bhangarh, which causes symptoms of anxiety and restlessness. Nevertheless, most of people like Bhangarh, and even those who went there at night didn't notice anything strange.
"Diorama of the route of the overland mail to India-- Leaving Suez," from the Illustrated London News, 1850
Tallis maps from 1850′s were very interesting. It gives you a sense of place, a sense of geography and a sense of images from the place. Like the one above, it has the map, it has the color coded overland routes to India and is adorned with little vignette of the images and those little camels and lions are just so adorable. In the 1830s, the Suez route—steamship to Alexandria, overland to Port Suez, steamer across the Arabian Sea—halved the travel time from London to India: three months rather than six. (It would halve again with the opening of the canal in 1869.)
For all England's pride in its empire, few Englishman had any sense of it before the 1850s.
The Arab slave trade passed mainly over land routes
COWES:Launch:West India mailship Solent,old print,1853
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"Mail-gary in the northwest of India," from 'Ballou's Pictorial,' 1856
"Dawk Walas (Postmen)
"Slinging letter-bags in the rainy season," from the Illustrated London News, 1858
"Her Majesty's Mail in India," from the Illustrated London News, 1867
Successive postmarks on a letter to the Nawab of Rampur, 1867
The postmarks show that the letter travelled from Delhi to Meerut, then on to Calcutta, then on to Aligarh, then to Rampur, where it finally caught up with the Nawab.
"The postal services carriage," by A. de Neuville, from 'Le Tour du Monde', 1873
A special postal office was set up on the Prince of Wales's ship (Illustrated London News, 1875);
"Gwalior: The Dak-Ghari," from 'India and its Native Princes' by Louis Rousselet, 1878
A letter sent from Diu to Karachi in 1881; the envelope has been secured with sealing-wax
c.1900, from India : across the man's chest is a leather strap, leading to his letter pouch; in one hand he carries a package, and on his shoulder is a large metal badge that reads "Post Office Delivery Peon No. 11
The staff of the Delhi Central Post Office, in a photo by Raja Deen Dayal, 1903 (to celebrate the coronation of Edward VII)
"Mail sorters," a photo by A. Keyes, 1925-30
Post By Walk
Post By Bullock Cart
Post By Tonga
Post By Coach
Post By Train
Post By Ship
Post By Air Mail
ORISSA POLICE PIGEON POST
Issued in 1989 to pay tribute to the last Pigeon Post service still in service
Pigeon Post: a woodcut from 1481
Pigeon Post was an official form of communication during the early times POST Carried by Elephant
Launch of the West India mail steam-ship “Solent,” at Cowes
Genuine original antique engraving, 1853
Caption below picture: 'Launch of the West India mail steam-ship “Solent,” at Cowes'
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