The goddess has decapitated Karthaveerya, her chief tormentor. She takes on the form of Kali to slay him. Digital Photograph, Joe Christopher, Hyderabad, 2009.

Fig. 08: Cover of the Hindi novel Watan (Homeland) by Ved Prakash Sharma.

Fig. 06: "Special attention on 90 districts with a concentration of minorities", an Urdu advertisement from the Congress party, 2009. It uses professional models from a modeling agency, dressed like an Indian Muslim family. From the collection of th author.

Fig. 08: Narsimha, offset chromolithograph, published by Jothi, c. 2000.

Chandra Shekar Azad, c. 1990, publisher information unknown, 10 x 14.5 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna.

RAJA FIGHT, PRICE RE 0.06, SMF, RADAKRISHNA MATCH WORKS AYYANERI. Colour printed matchbox label , vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.306.001]

SHIVAJI SAFETY MATCHES. 50's PRICE 15 PS. SOUNDRAPANDIAN MATCH WORKS ELLAYIRAMPANNAI. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.105.003]

PONN-MEEN. PRICE RE. 0.0.6. SRI LAKSHMI MATCH WORKS SRIVILLIPUTTUR. Colour printed matchbox label, horizontal, mid-late 20^th C, 5 cm x 3.5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.270.0.4]

 

RADIO. SAFETY MATCHES. PRICE RE. 0.0.6. ARUNA MATCH WORKS. WALAJAPET. N. A. MADE IN INDIA. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.297.004]

 

IMPREGNATED, BANDEMATARAM, SAFETY MATCHES, THE CAPITAL CIGARETTE CO., MADE IN SWEDEN, Printed matchbox labels, early-mid 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.044.002]

Renuka Yellamma is depicted as the universal mother. She resembles Durga. This form is supposed to have appeased Parasuram in repentence over the sin of matricide. Digital Photograph, Joe Christopher, Hyderabad, 2009.