MD. HAFIZ MD. NASIR CAWNPORE, (MUHAMMAD HAFEEZ MUHAMMAD NASEER SAUDAGAR NAYAGANJ KANPUR). Colour printed matchbox label on card, vertical, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, mid-late 20^th C, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.150.003]

RABBIT (Also in Tamil Text). PRICE RE. 0.04. RATNA MATCH COMPANY ARUMUGANERI.  Colour printed matchbox label, horizontal, mid-late 20^th C, 5 cm x 3.5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.291.006]

KEY. SAFETY MATCHES. THE SOUTH ARCOT MATCH WORKS LIMITED. CHIDAMBARAM. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.372.005]

 

LILLY Phool, 50’s PRICE 20 Ps., SAFETY MATCHES, BALAGANAPATHY MATCH WORKS, SUNDARESAPURAM, Printed matchbox label, mid-late 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.064.003]

LIGHTER. SAFETY MATCH. TMR: 729627. 10 BOXES M.R.P. RS. 7.50. INCL. OF ALL TAXES. 75 P. 40'S. TMA 729627. MFD. IN ANNAPOORANI MATCH INDUSTRIES, ANAIKUTTAM. Printed matchbox label, mid-late 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.062.001]

Fig. 11: An advertisement on a tin sign for Brooke Bond Red Label Tea, ca. 1960s-1970s. From the Priya Paul Collection, New Delhi.

A calendar by and for the followers of Dera Sach Khand Ballan. Printer/publisher: Ravi Parkash P.P MOH. Sundar Nagar, Jalandhar Purchased from the printer’s shop in Jalandhar. A calendar printed by Shri Guru Ravidas Naujvan Sabha and Samuh Sangat pind Pandori Nijran Zila Jalandhar (Shri Guru Ravidas Youth Club and followers from village Pandori Nizran of district Jalandhar).

Fig. 19 The entrance to Shahin AC Salon and Beauty Parlour, Dhaka exhibits large-size pictures of Bollywood male icons. Photograph taken during fieldwork, 2017.

Fig. 16: Cover of Guru Tegh Bahadur: Hind Di Chadar. Published by Guru Tegh Bahadur Educational and Charitable Trust, Gurgaon, c. 2011. Photograph: author.

Fig. 03: ‘May It Please Your Highness’ (unsigned), The National Herald, Lucknow, 13 May 1947, p. 4. Courtesy Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.

Devlok by Kanhiyalal Bhimraj, Nathadwara, c. 1948, 25 x 37 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna. [#263]

TARZAN FIGHT, IQBAL MATCH WKS. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India.[11.153.006]