Fig. 21: Game of Love, Valentines Day greeting card, Archies Ltd., c. 2010, private coll.

Hind Devi [Mother India]. Packaging label for the Ahmedabad New Textile Mills, Ahmedabad, circa early to mid 20th century. Collection: Abhishek Poddar, image courtesy CIVIC Visual Archive, New Delhi.

Fig. 22: The young Prince Akbar. Page from Amar Chitra Katha’s Akbar (1979).
Artist: P.B. Kavadi.

Dukhi Mata (sad mother) by Prabhu Dayal, c. 1931, Shyam Sunder Lal, Cawnpore, 19.5 x 27.5 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna.

Jai Hind (hail India), c. 1947, Shyam Sunder Lal Agrawal, Cawnpore, 26 x 15 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna. [#436]

MADE IN AUSTRIA, Printed matchbox label, early-mid 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm. Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [13.049.002]

PANTHER. 6. NP. ASIFNAGAR FAMILY WELFARE MATCH CO. HY 'BAD'. Colour printed matchbox label, horizontal, mid-late 20^th C, 5 cm x 3.5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.228.001]

 

PALACE. SAFETY MATCHES. 12 BOXES EACH 25 PS. Colour printed matchbox label, horizontal, mid-late 20^th C, 5 cm x 3.5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.220.001]

 

Haripur Potter by Nandalal Bose, c. 1937, painting on paper. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna. [#405]

Fig. 48: PAAN-WALI (Betel-leaf serving Woman). Performers: Kailashnath Mishra and party. Publisher: SWARPRABHAT VCD.

Fig. 09: Jasoos Sampadak (The Detective Editor), Author Gopal Ram Gahmari. Copy of the original half tone image published in the Monthly Jasoos, Banaras, 1930.

Fig. 22: You and Me, Valentines Day greeting card produced in the context of the legalisation of homosexuality, 2009.

India’s Hope: Her Textile Industry. Advertisement for E. D. Sassoon & Company, Bombay, 1931. Image Courtesy: Lisa Trivedi.

Fig. 23: The valiant Rajput king overpowers a charging tiger. Opening page of Amar Chitra Katha’s Prithviraj Chauhan (1971).
Artist: P.B. Kavadi.