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 1 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Pilgrims nearing the Sangam
By Ernest Stephen Lumsden

Date painted: 1927
Oil on board, 50.9 x 60.8 cm

Collection: Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture Read More
 11 Aug 2013 Rare Paintings
Painting; gouache, Sati Ceremony, Tanjore, 1800

Sati ceremony: self-immolation of a Hindu widow, with men and women mourning by a river.

The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. This one depicts the practice of sati (suttee) or widow-burning... Read More
 2 Jul 2013 Rare Photographs
Photo album:
Photographs of Western India
At the SMU Central University Libraries site

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 1 Jul 2013 Rare Photographs
Pounding rice - 1895

Photograph of a group of Kashmiri women in the modern-day state of Jammu and Kashir in India, taken by an unknown photographer in the 1890s. The two standing women are pounding rice with wooden poles in a vessel. The older woman squatting on the left is separating grains o... Read More
 1 Jul 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Dictionary of Kashmiri Proverbs & Sayings - Explained and illustrated from the rich and interesting folklore of the Valley
By Rev. J. Hinton Knowles.
Published by Education Society's Press, Bombay - 1885

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 29 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Praying cylinders at Soonum. Woman filling a container with water, Himalaya - 1865

By William Simpson

Watercolour on paper

Simpson, William (1823-1899). Painter and lithographer. Simpson was apprenticed to a lithographer in Glasgow and in 1851 came to London where he made views of the Gr... Read More
 25 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Village Bengali des bords du Gange - 1841

Lithograph of a Bengali village on the banks of the Ganges by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing of November 1841 by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov and published in Paris in 1848.

The Ganges is the principal river of India... Read More
 24 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Hindus of the Himalayas
By Gerald D. Berreman
Published by University of California Press - 1963


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A villager of Kelsu in the Himalyas. On back, sketch of a milk stoup and waterlathe, a... Read More
 23 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The web of Indian life
By Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble)
Published by William Heinemann, London - 1906


Book Excerpt:

The woman pausing in the dying light to salute the river brings us to another such instance. There is nothing occult in the passion of Hindus for the Ga... Read More
 21 Jun 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Languages of the northern Himalayas, being studies in the grammar of twenty-six Himalayan dialects.
By Thomas Grahame Bailey
Published by Royal Asiatic Society, London - 1908


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 26 May 2013 Rare Paintings
An Indian man riding a camel
India
Early 1800s

Credit: Wellcome Library, London Read More
 13 May 2013 Rare Paintings
"India Nilgiris Toda woman"; from Ootikamund; wearing red and white costume - 1959
By Lily Eversdijk-Smulders
Drawing, Chalk and crayon.

Lily Eversdijk-Smulders (1903-1994), portrait painter and lawyer.
She obtained her degree of Doctor of Law at the University of Leiden, Holland. After few... Read More
 13 May 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The TODAS
By William Halse Rivers
Published by Macmillan & Co., London - 1906

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Photograph of a Toda man by unknown photographer from Madras School of Industrial Arts, Southern India, 19t... Read More
 13 May 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Anthropology of the Todas and Kotas of the Nilgiri Hills : and of the Bráhmans, Kammálans, Pallis, and Pariahs of Madras City
By Edgar Thurston
Printed by The Superintendent, Government Press, Madras - 1896

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 13 May 2013 Rare Photographs
Photograph of the Chief of Buddaga by unknown photographer from Madras School of Industrial Arts, Southern India, India, 19th century.

Portrait of the Chief of Buddaga seated in a wicker basket upon the floor, from a hill tribe located in the Nilgiri Hills.

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 13 May 2013 Rare Photographs
Photograph of two Kirumbala men by an unknown photographer from Madras School of Industrial Arts, Southern India, 19th century.

Portrait of two men depicted leaning against a rock whilst holding their agricultural tools, from the Kirumbala tribe in the Nilgiri Hills.

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 13 May 2013 Rare Photographs
Photograph of a woman from the Cassersarow tribe by unknown photographer from Madras School of Industrial Arts, Southern India, 19th century.

A woman wearing traditional jewelley is depicted leaning against a wall with her left hand raised to her chest, from the Casserarow tribe in the Nilgiri... Read More
 12 May 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Travels amongst the Todas or The study of a primitive tribe in south India: History, character, customs, religion, infanticide, polyandry, language with outlines of the Tuda grammar.
By William E. Marshall
Published by Longmans Green & Co., London - 1873


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 12 May 2013 Rare Photographs
Photograph of a Toda man by unknown photographer from Madras School of Industrial Arts, Southern India, 19th century.

Portrait of a Toda man wearing traditional clothing with his right hand raised to his chest, standing against a plain white wall. This hill tribe are widely recognised in India... Read More
 12 May 2013 Rare Photographs
Photograph by Carl W.Damman from the Anthropological and Ethnologies Album of Asia, 1873, Germany.

Individual images are based on a frontal portrait and profile to highlight a Panjabi Sikh, a Parsi male from Bombay, a bare chested male from Tranquebar in Southern India, and a frontal portrait of... Read More
 11 May 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Ancient Indian Tribes
By Bimla Churn Law
Published by Motilal Banarsidass, Lahore - 1926

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Anathapindika covers Jetavana with coins (Bharhut, Brahmi text: jetavana ananthapindiko deti k... Read More