Fig. 24: LAL TIMATAR (Red Tomato). Singer: Tarabano Faizabadi. Publisher: GANGA VCD.

Fig. 23: Railway Station, Multan (India). With its minarets and arched windows, this railway station, now in Pakistan, expresses through architecture how the British saw themselves as inheritors of Mughal rule, rather than conquerors and thus the legitimate rulers of the Indian subcontinent. Published by H.A.Mirza Sons, Delhi. Made in Germany (unused postcard). From the Priya Paul Collection.

Figure 22. “Inti arakki,” [demoness Hindi], artist: Guna. Cartoon in Tamil newspaper, Mālai Maṇi, 18th August, 1963, p. 5. Courtesy: Perasiriyar K. Anbazhagan Library, Anna Arivalayam, Chennai.

Fig. 08. An elder sister teaches her brother to learn to read the Quran a common image used in homes with children. Artist: unknown, Publisher: JB Khanna Co., date: circa 2000.

The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India. Book cover designed by Heather Hensley for Duke University Press, Durham, 2010. Courtesy of the author.

Fig. 25: (left) A portrait poster of Tajuddin Baba. Publisher: J.B. Khanna, Artist unknown, 1995. (right) Notice the similarity of the baba’s sitting posture in this photograph taken in a mental asylum near Nagpur, c. 1920 (sold outside his shrine).

Mother India by AKS, c. 1948, Oriental Calendar Manufacturing Company, Dumdum, Print, 17.5 x 25 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna.

Dream of Netaji, c. 1940, T.C.M., 18.5 x 24 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna. [#413]

KAMLA DEVI, SAFETY MATCHES, MADE IN SWEDEN, Printed matchbox label, early-mid 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm (small label). Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [13.036.001]

NANDU.DAMP PROOF. SUPER DELUXE SAFETY MATCHES. 40 STICKS. M.R.P. RE. 1.00 (INCLUSIVE OF ALL TAXES). TRADE MARK REG. NO. 2385618. MFD. BY ANAND MATCH WORKS, REDDIAPATTI. CUSTOMER FEED BACK: ANAND MATCH WORKS REDDIAPATTI. Colour printed matchbox label, horizontal, mid-late 20^th C, 5 cm x 3.5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.180.002]

 

NMTCO (Also in Hindi Text). Sattur (In Hindi Text). PRICE 13 PS, 50'S. KANGARAJ MATCH FACTORY. ILAYARASANENDAL. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.174.004]

 

Gandhi - Nehru - Indra, c.1970, J. B. Khanna, Madras, 22.5 x 32 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna. [#348]

Fly with me!, Printed matchbox label, mid-late 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.031.006]

Sant Tukaram, A.E.MATCHESWALA, Printed matchbox label, early-mid 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [sof20.019.003]