Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of a young lady wearing an exotic mixture of eastern and European clothes. The inscripiton indicates that she comes from a Jewish merchant community which felt happier in the business environment of the day in adopting a Ch...
Read More
Three religious mendicant couples, from a volume containing thirty folios depicting castes, occupations, methods of cultivation and processions, Tanjore, ca. 1830
Painting; gouache and watercolour.
Painting, watercolour and gouache on paper from a folio of thirty Company paintings, depicting th...
Read More
Four male ascetics, From a volume containing thirty folios depicting castes, occupations, methods of cultivation and procession scenes, Tanjore, ca. 1830
Painting; gouache and watercolour.
Four male ascetics:
1. A Bhairagi (Vaishnavite devotee), in a loin cloth, carrying a lota and a rosary. ...
Read More
Digital Rare Book:
Ethnographic Notes in Southern India
By Edgar Thurston
Printed by the Superintendent, Government Press, Madras - 1906
Book Extract:
The following story is current concerning the sacred vultures of Tirukazhukunram. The Ashtavasus, or eight gods who guard the eight points of th...
Read More
Article:
Vultures continue to give a miss to a temple in Tamil Nadu
Deccan Herald, May 03, 2014
Some 14 years ago, newspapers published a report stating sick vultures were being taken by an Indian Airlines flight from Jaipur to Mumbai for finding out the reason, why most of the vultures in India...
Read More
Digital Rare Book:
The Adventures of the Panjab hero Raja Rasalu, and other folk-tales of the Panjab
Collected and compiled from original sources by Rev.Charles Swynnerton
Published by W. Newman & Co., Ltd., Calcutta - 1884
Digital Rare Book:
Romantic tales from the Panjab with Indian nights' entertainment
By Charles Swynnerton
Published by Archibald Constable, London - 1908
Read Book Online:
http://bit.ly/1fNjfpc
Image:
Heer and Ranjha
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1960 lower right, framed,83.6 x 151.5cm (32 ...
Read More
Digital Rare Book:
Indian Folk-tales: Being side-lights on village life in Bilaspore, Central Provinces
By E.M.Gordon
Published by Elliot Stock, London - 1909
A Bairagi or Hindu Ascetic
By Captain Robert Melville Grindlay
c.1820
Oil on canvas, 42 x 36 cm
A painting of an Hindu ascetic (bairagi). Grindlay served with the 7th Bombay Native Infantry from 1804 to 1820, and after he retired from India founded the banking firm of Grindlay & Company.
An officer of the Calcutta Police
Attributed to Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya
Calcutta, circa 1840
Watercolour on paper, framed
226 x 123 mm.
Shaikh Muhammad Amir came from Karraya, an outlying district of Calcutta, and was the best-known artist working for the British in that city. His car...
Read More