Tourist Division, India (sold)
Tourist Division (1954 – 1960) of the Ministry of Transportation (and Communications) of the Government of India was a short-lived government office that was reorganized multiple times over the 1950s and 1960s, until it reached its current form as the Ministry of Tourism in 1967. It produced a number of tourist and travel pamphlets in English and other Western languages during this time.
A tourist and propaganda map of Kashmir, soon after its incorporation into India.
This is a beautiful c. 1960 tourist folding map of Kashmir produced by the Indian government. Although primarily meant to entice domestic and foreign tourists to the region, it is laden with political meaning as the region was only recently and tenuously made part of the Indian Republic. (more details)