Watercolour painting with a pen and ink border of a man and woman carding cotton. The man is seated on the ground holding a bow-like instrument with his left hand and another implement in his right. On the ground below the bow-like instrument is a white mat and the suggestion of clumps of cotton....
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Watercolour painting on paper of two women spinning cotton. Both women are seated on the ground in front of a thatched building. One woman, wearing an orange sari which covered her head and shoulders is spinning using a drop spindle over a basket. She is squatting on a mat and has numerous bangle...
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Digital Rare Book:
The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India
By J.Forbes Watson
Printed for India Office by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, London- 1866
Cotton stacks and 'churka' or cotton gin in operation, Berar - 1866
Photograph of cotton stacks and a 'charka' or cotton gin in operation at Berar in India, taken by an unknown photographer in 1866, from the Archaeological Survey of Indian Collections. After photography was introduced into Ind...
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Photograph of the native loom or Mag at Berar in Maharashtra, taken by an unknown photographer in c. 1866, from the Archaeological Survey of India. The weaver sits with his legs in a type of hole which contains the lower portion of the machinery which he wo...
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Photograph of women laying out warps on the ground in Jammu and Kashmir, taken by an unknown photographer in the 1890s. The women shown here are unwinding spun thread into long lengths which will later be used to form the warp threads of weaving looms and s...
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Man operating a silk loom, Ghotal, Midnapur - 1873
Photograph of a man operating a silk loom at Ghotal in Medinipur, Bengal, taken by an unknown photographer in c. 1873, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. This image was probably shown at an International Exhibition. The produ...
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Watercolour of a street scene in the village of Raniya in the Hissar district, Haryana, by an anonymous artist working in the Delhi style, part of the Fraser Collection, c. 1816-1820.
In the foreground a young woman sits SPINNING with a child b...
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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...
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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...
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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
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...
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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...
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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...
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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