Fig. 38: Bal Mukund, by B.G. Sharma, offset chromolithograph, published by Sharma Picture Publication, Bombay, c. 1955.

Fig. 25: Freedom fighters, anonymous copy in the style of H.R. Raja, published by J.B. Khanna, Chennai, c. 1980.

Fig. 18: Shri Shivaji Maharaja, by D.P. Vaidya, chromolithograph, published by Modern Litho Works, Bombay, 1931.

Figure 11: News of Russo-Japanese Battles: For the Fourth Time Our Destroyers Bravely Attack Enemy Ships Outside the Harbour of Port Arthur, by Migita Toshihide, 1904, woodblock print (three oban sheets).

Fig. 04: Jairagi, plate 47 from W.G. Archer’s Vertical Man, 1947.

Fig. 58: Khilji struts his stuff. Screenshot from Padmaavat (Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2018).
https://primevideo.com/detail/0LCQGVFVLNI8MOOGAT6T4611H2

Fig. 51: ‘I am a Rajput woman, not a clay toy!’ Panels from the Chitra Bharati Series comic-book Chittod ka Chiragh (early 1980s).
Artist: A.S. Chitrak.

Fig. 45: Poster of Matsyagandha. Publisher not mentioned, c. 1950s. From the author’s personal collection.

Fig. 38: The threat to the pure Hindu woman. Panel from Amar Chitra Katha’s Padmini (1973). Artist: Ram Waeerkar.

Fig. 56: Khilji in Padmaavat, Drogo in Game of Thrones.
https://peepingmoon.com/entertainment-news/news/13745/The-Khilji-Khal-Drogo-Controversy-is-just-what-Padmavati-makers-needed.html

Fig. 36: Krishna in Om, by Narottam Narain Sharma, chromolithograph, published by S.S. Brijbasi, late 1940s.

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Our Saviour, c. 1940, R.Ethirajah & Sons, Madras, 33 x 24 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna.

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