PALACE. SAFETY MATCHES. GOLDEN MATCHWORKS SATTUR. PRICE RE. 0.05. Colour printed matchbox label, horizontal, mid-late 20^th C, 5 cm x 3.5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.220.005]

 

Netaji (Singapur) by Sudhir Chowdury, c. 1945, S.N.S., 16 x 20 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna. [#416]

PARLIAMENT. SAFETY MATCHES. PRICE 7 NP. ANUA MATCH WORKS SANKARANAINARKOVIL, Printed matchbox label, early-mid 20th c., 5 cm x 3.5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.233.001]

Fig. 13: Ganga the four-armed river goddess is the holy river Ganges personified, her vahana is the legendary makara – a hybrid creature with the head of an elephant or crocodile and the body of a fish or river dolphin, late 19th century, 12.70 cm x 10.80 cm. Susan Meller Collection, California.

Fig. 52: MOBILE-WALI (Woman with the mobile-phone). Singers: Manoj Tiwari Mridul and Trishna. Publisher: WAVE VCD.

Fig. 02: Nadia (as ‘Hunterwali’, for 19.01.1996, ABP, P.8)

Fig. 26: Hindu Jagruti campaign appealing to Indian youth to dissuade from celebrating Valentine's Day in 2012. (Thanks to Kajri Jain for sending this image). http://www.hindujagruti.org/activities/campaigns/religious/valentine-day/

Shri Vishnu. Print published by Ravi Varma Press, Malavli and Anant Shivaji Desai, Bombay, early 20th century. Priya Paul Collection, New Delhi.

Fig. 27: Cover of Amar Chitra Katha’s Shah Jahan (1979).
Artist: P.G. Sirur.

Swadheen Bharat, Free India, c. 1947, S.N.S., 17.5 x 24 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna.

MAHARAJ, PREMIER MATCHES, 10 PS, 50's PRICE, THITTANKULAM (KOVILPATTI).  Colour printed matchbox label vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cmx5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.117.006]

BOAT, YESPI MATCH FACTORY TRICHUR, Printed matchbox label, early-mid 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm. Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [13.051.004]

PARROT. SUPERIOR QUALITY. MGRL. PRICE 15 PS. TRADE MARK. 50'S REGD. NO. 424765. SRI RAMAKRISHNA MATCH INDUSTRIES, MOGALLUR. Colour printed matchbox label, horizontal, mid-late 20^th C, 5 cm x 3.5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.234.002]

PALMYRA FRUIT. PRICE 6 NP. SAFETY MATCHES. KRISHNASWAMY MATCHWORKS. POTHIREDIAFATTI (VIA) SATTUR.  Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.221.001]