Fig. 21: Amitabh Bachchan in a Hindi-language poster of Khud-Daar (The Arrogant One; dir. Ravi Tandon, 1982). From Ranjani Mazumdar’s collection.

Fig. 18: Samrajya board game, Kazi Studios, Kathmandu. Photograph by Dannah Dennis, 2018.

Fig. 16. Actor Salman Khan riding a Triumph Bonneville in maut ka kuan (Well of Death), a still from Bharat, 2019, dir. Ali Abbas Zafar. Sourced from https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/watch-how-the-director-and-stuntmen-made-the-impossible-maut-ka-kuan-possible-in-bharat/articleshow/69700907.cms

Fig. 29: Banana-sellers carry on their business in front of a wall on which posters of martyred cadres are pasted.
Photograph taken by Shyam Tekwani and reproduced with his permission.

LOKMANYA. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.035.003]

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Mahatma Gandhi, c. 1931, Ravi Varma Press, Malavli-Lonavla and Anant Shivaji Desai, Oleograph. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna. [#219]

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