Fig. 01: Dust jacket of W.G. Archer’s The Vertical Man: A Study in Primitive Indian Sculpture, first edition 1947.

Fig. 55: Poster for Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2015).
http://impawards.com/intl/india/2015/bajirao_mastani_ver6.html

Fig. 48: The Joker. Panels from the comic-book Superman and Batman’s Greatest Foes! National Comics Publications, Inc, May/June 1957. Artists: Dick Sprang and Stan Kaye.

Fig. 41: Opening page of Amar Chitra Katha’s Urvashi (1974).
Artist: Pratap Mullick.

Fig. 35: The covetous Sultan Alauddin Khilji. Panel from Amar Chitra Katha’s Padmini (1973).
Artist: Ram Waeerkar.

Fig. 12: Maharana Pratap of Udaipur, by Hiralal, offset chromolithograph, published by Haranarayan and Sons, Jodhpur, 1933.

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Life story of Gandhi, c. 1948, Oriental calendar, Dumdum, calendar sample, 19.5 x 15 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna.

Jinnah, c. 1947. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna.

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