In my collection i have several Maharajas of India vintage Post Cards. These vintage post cards printed by The Rotary Photo Company London. Until 1947 there will be several States in the entire India. Even up to 26th Januray, 1950 when India become Republic all of these States existed and from 26th January,1950 all of these States merged into the Republic of India and become part of Republic of India. Look at the dress styles and many other aspects of each of these Maharaja post card. We observed several things from these post cards. Particularly the photography quality is very excellent. Each of these States have their own Heritage. They have their own Heritage Monuments,Architecture,Temples etc. many things. There will be plenty of Historical information about in various aspects about each of these States of Pre Independence Period. It is my pleasure that i am the proud owner of all these vintage Maharajas of India of Pre Independence Period printed by The Rotary Photo Co. of London. This is Group of Maharajas of India vintage post card. This is 4 Sons of Maharaja of Cooch Behar State post card. This is Maharaja of Baroda State post card. This is Calcutta Group post card. This is Daughters of Maharaja Duleep Singh post card. This is H.H. The Maharajah of Bhurthore State post card. This is H.H.The Raja Of Shahperra State post card. This is His Excellency Dewan Bahadur Laxuman Jagganath Prime Minister of Baroda State post card. This is Jafar Kamadhia of Surat State post card. This is Maharaja Jagajit Singh of Kapurthala State post card. This is Maharaja of Baroda State in 1877 Post Card. This is Maharaja of Hyderbad State in 1877 Post Card. This is Maharaja of Jaora State post card. This is Maharaja of Travancore State post card. This is Maharajah of Bhavnagar State on His Horse in 1900 post card. This is Maharani of Bhopal State post card. This is Maharani Siniti Devi of Cooch Behar State post card. This is Mohammad Mushtaq ul Hasan of Kadaura State post card. This is Murlaxa Khan of Radhan state post card. This is Nawab Jafar Jung Bahadur post card. This is Nawab Sir Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur of Hyderabad State post card. This is Princess Rajindra in 1921 Post Card. This is Sir Bhopal Singh Bahadur of Udaipur State Post Card. This is Sir Haji Jan Mohammad Chotani (1873 - 1932) Post Card. This is Sri Abdul Khalid in 1924 post card. This is Sri Ajit Singh Khetri 1864-1900 post card. This is Sri Balabhadra Narayan Bhunj Deo of Keonjhar State post card. This is Sri Bharatsinghji of Gondal State post card. This is Sri Braja Mohan Deo of Kalahandi State post card. These are 2 different post cards of Sri Ganga Singhji Bahadur of Bikaner State. This is Sri Harindar Singh Brabbans Sahib of Fardikot State post card. This is Sri Krishna Chandra Singh Mandhata of Nayagarh State post card. This is Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur of Mysore State post card. This is Sri Martanda Bhairava Tondiman Bahadur of Pudukkottai State Post Card. This is Sri Natwarsinhji Fatehsinhji of Chhota Udaippur State post card. This is Sri Nawab Sidi Muhammad Khan of Janjira State post card. This is Sri Pratap Chandra Bhanj Deo of Mayurbhanj State post card. This is Sri Rajendra Narayan Singh Dev of Patna State post card. This is Sri Rajendra Prakash of Sirmoor State post card. This is Sri Ramanuj Saran Singh Deo of Surguja State post card. This is Sri Ramaraja Bahadur Shamsher Jung of Travancore State post card. This is Sri Rana Natwarsinhji of Porbandar State post card. This is Sri Shrimant Khem of Sawanwadi State post card. This is Sri Sur Singh Thakur of Palitana State post card. This is Sri Umaid Singhji of Ghahhara State in 1826 post card. This is Sri Vijaya Sinh Rao Bhonsle of Akalkot State post card. This is The Maharajah of Bhavnagar (Gujarat) in 1880 post card. This is Maharaja post card. This is Yuvraj Shri Mahendra Sinhji of Morvi State in 1918 post card. This is The King's Orderly Officers in 1925 post card. This is the back side of these post cards.In back side displayed as Printed in London by The Rotary Photo Co. Recently on 29th June i am exhibiting these Maharajas of India vintage postcards to the school children on the occasion of my second seminar on Indian Heritage and Culture at Ravindra Bharathi School, Kakinada. This is the link of my second seminar message. http://indian-heritage-and-culture.blogspot.in/2013/07/my-second-seminar-on-indian-heritage.html These are the photos of exhibition of Maharajas of India vintage postcards of my collection which i exhibited to Ravindra Bharathi School children on 29th June.

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TAGORE, MAHARAJA SIR JOTBBNDRO MOHUN, BAHADUR, K.C.S.I., Maharaja Bahadur. Arms. Azure, the sun in splendour proper, surrounded by a halo of eight points or, all within a bordure argent. Crest. On a tortoise or the figure of Vishnu proper, seated, his head surrounded by a halo of the first. Supporters. A Royal Bengal tiger and an elephant, both rampant, or. Motto. Satyam Balam Kebalam (Bengdli, meaning "Truth is the only Power"). Source : The golden book of India, a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire, by Lethbridge, Roper, Published 1893.

TRAVANCORE, HIS HIGHNESS SIR BALA RAMA VARMA, G.C.S.I, Maharaja of. Arms. Argent, on a fesse azure, three reversed conches or chank-shells or. Crest. A sea-horse proper. Supporters. Elephants rampant, proper. Motto. Dharmo Smat Kuladevatam. Source : The golden book of India, a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire, by Lethbridge, Roper, Published 1893.

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JODHPUR, HIS HIGHNESS SIR JASWANT SINGH BAHADUR, G.C.S.I., Maharaja of. The family cognisance is the falcon, the sacred garur of the Solar Rajputs. Source : The golden book of India, a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire, by Lethbridge, Roper, Published 1893.

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Maharaja Duleep Singh by Horne & Thornthwaite; albumen print; London, Britain; ca.1850.

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Famed French photographer Guy Hervais has traveled the world capturing images of the most beautiful private gardens. Let’s unlock the garden gate and enter the splendor of these gardens. Come with me for an exclusive visit and a chat with Guy, and meet this lovely and very private soul who is a world-renowned expert on the aesthetics and ephemeral beauty of gardens. I have a wonderful and totally exclusive story and photos for you today! Over the last few weeks, I’ve introduced the great photographer, Guy Hervais, to my dear and faithful readers. We’ve seen the stupendously beautiful photographs he took of the new Hyderabad, India, hotel, Falaknuma Palace (one of the great new palace hotels). And we recently saw an edited portfolio of his spectacular interiors photographs, including private images he took recently in India for the legendary Maharajah of Jodhpur, a dear friend. In case you missed these, check and view recent posts on Falaknuma Palace here, and Guy’s Greatest Photos, here. Now we are encountering the most passionate aspect of Guy’s work—his focus on gardens of the world, as well as his private garden design. These are some of the most striking, original, and perfect garden images you will ever see. They are so vivid you can smell the lavender and lemons, feel the fresh air brushing your cheek, and hear birds chirping in the trees. You will sense the first dawn light, and the tender last rays of sunset. The splendor of these gardens and their particular character and style are captured by an obsessed photographer, He is also knowledgeable about horticulture and garden design. He will get up in the middle of the night to capture the first light flickering over a garden. Hervais will follow a garden’s progress over years. He understands gardens, loves them, and lets his intelligence and imagination loose on the beauty and glory of these landscapes. I love gardens that are unique. Unique means exceptional. Exceptional for gardens always means personal. A garden could be the most simple or the most sophisticated, small or huge, but it should be a personal, private vision. What is important is its ‘anima‘, its soul, its character, its grandeur of vision, its essence. It might come from its creator, a hired gardener, the landscape designer, or the owner When all are united, to bring together design, horticulture, style, originality, beauty, it’s a masterpiece. —photographer Guy Hervais I recently had a cozy chat with Guy. He’s enthusiastic, passionate, witty, lovely, and a genius photographer. DDS: Guy, how did you get started photographing gardens? GH: I have had the chance to visit many unique, world renowned, completely hidden or unknown gardens, to produce stories for magazines such as French Vogue, House & Garden international editions and travel publications. With time, it became so natural to me, that I decided to pay homage to these discoveries, creating Garden-Secret, my studio dedicated to bespoke books for owners to offer to their friends. Starting with photography, I manage the art direction from the layout to the end of the printing. My goal is to create the most beautiful books, as unique as their owners. DDS: Tell us about your own garden in Provence. GH: AT Le Pavillon de Galon, my residence and studio, we have created several gardens, all inspired by the incredible surrounding landscape. The main garden, ‘Le Jardin à la Française’, was originally an abandoned prairie and now fronts the house. Within its closed walls, 80m by 40m, we decided to design an historical modern garden with a blue and green color palette and balanced planting using very sophisticated shapes and natural essences from the wild mountain behind us. We love to sit on our terrace in the afternoon and admire it and wonder at our divinities, a series of trees that are over 300 years old. I have planted a young orchard (we have now about 80 different fruit varietals). There is a spiral planted with olive trees. We created an avenue of alternating pines and brooms, called ‘Les Champs Elysées’. This is Provence, so naturally we have a fig orchard and our wine, a Côte du Luberon called Hocus Pocus (produced on a tiny scale with only 1000 bottles per year). DDS: Tell us about the gardens of the eco architect Geoffrey Bawa, in Sri Lanka. GH: For years now, I have traveled regularly to India and Sri Lanka to get inspiration related to nature and spirituality. When there, I meet extraordinary artists, architects and very original characters. Among them, I’m passionate about the works of Sir Geoffrey Bawa, one of my very dearest masters. He always finds the perfect relationship between the vegetal and architecture world (where the outside is inside and the inside is outside). Perfection. True enlightenment. DDS: I adore the sculptural garden in Menerbes. It was created by an American woman, very private and is a vision of simply green grass, sculpted box, lavender, and limestone. It is so peaceful. GH: I adore the sculptural gardens created by an inspired American lady, built on the cliffs and rocks of the beautiful Ménerbes village, once the artists Picasso’s, Dora Maar's, and Nicolas de Stael’s prefered places on earth. Here you feel how style is mastered. A strong, beautiful and humble dedication to Beauty and Life. “I spend a lot of time cultivating my own garden. I used to say that my only ‘dictator’ is my garden.”—Guy Hervais DDS: You travel the world, Paris, Jodhpur, Rome, Milan, London. GH: My garden is my absolute priority. Nothing can really wait. I have a vision and I’m obsessed. Here I work with some help, shaping, pruning, digging. I’m very much aware ‘gardening’ doesn’t simply mean a spade, a rake, a mower. It is soul and it gives back at every moment: new energy, new creation, new thought, strength, inspiration. It’s important for me and my work. It gives new vision and insight. DDS: You have a focused and very elegant plant palette. GH: I adore all natural plants (not hybridized or artificial). All colors, all shapes (except spiky or sharply formed plants). Everything depends on where the garden is located, if it’s open or closed to the landscape, in which region, the soil, its orientation. All these details are extremely important; they seem endlessly complicated but at the same time they are so simple and are breathtaking in their simplicity. When creating some garden designs for my clients and friends, I keep reassuring them to give a strong structure to my creation. The ‘bones’, the form and the structure are like the architecture of the garden. All the rest follows naturally and gets more impressive over time as it grows. Time is the natural key for seeing a garden grow in harmony. I have for many years particularly admired a very ‘baroque’ tree, named ‘Sophora Japonica’, and an old variety of almond trees named ‘Princess’, which I have just planted. I am enjoying watching them grow. DDS: Current work? GH: For one year, I’ve been working for an extraordinary American lady, photographing her gardens in every season, near St Remy de Provence. We are creating a book. At the moment, I’m working on layouts and then the printing will start, undertaken by excellent craftsmen. Another book, an art object in a large format, I’m working on, in several volumes. It is about a site from prehistory to the present owners, following the great moments, which have all happened there. DDS: Projects? GH: Photography for a 1,000 year-old chateau, inside and outside for its new owners (Provence). Consulting for two palazzo gardens (Venice). Consulting for the beaches on the Lido island (Venice). Photography and work on Moghul gardens (India and Iran). DDS: Sources of inspiration for your gardens? GH: Some masters in no particular order: Louise de Vilmorin, Rabindranath Tagore, Goethe, Cézanne, Giuseppe Penone, Le Nôtre, J.H.Fabre, Andy Goldsworthy, Russell Page, Derek Jarman, William Blake, Pierre Lieuthaghi, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir. DDS: Favorite garden memory? GH: Last year, some Indian classical musicians played at a private concert for the Maharajah of Jodhpur. They later came to Provence to perform traditional morning and evening ragas, a kind of meditation/holy performance, during ‘garden open’ days. This Indian music, so beautifully and soulfully performed was pure magic. It was a sublime experience, mixed with the visions of plants, shade of the trees, the sunlight flickering, the warm air, and the whispering sound of the water running in the ancient pools. DDS: Tell us about Garden-Secret: GH: With Garden-Secret my private publishing company, I work with a team, all experts on gardens. To create private books on commission. For example, several of the gardens shown here in this article, have been published privately in books, by their owners. It is a way of capturing, for all time, the ephemeral beauty of the gardens. www.garden-secret.com CREDITS: All images are by French photographer, Guy Hervais, used with express permission. www.guy-hervais.com Guy Hervais and his wife, Bibi Gex run the glorious Le Pavillon de Galon, a lovely country inn in the dramatic Luberon region of Provence. Visit the gardens and stay for a weekend, a week, a month. Check on www.pavillondegalon.com and learn more about the region, exploring the region, and the local cuisine.

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