KING KONG, Price 0.06, SAKTHI MATCH FACTORY, SIVAKASI. Printed matchbox label, mid-late 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady collection, New Delhi, India. [2.006.007]

JOKER MATCHES, South Indian Lucifer Match Works SIVAKASI. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [11.405.006]
 

INDIAS PRIDE. H.H.THE MAHARAJA OF KUCH BEHAR, MADE IN AUSTRIA. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.121.009]

RAJAH'S LION. PRICE RE. 0.06. SAFETY MATCHES. SIMCO. Colour printed matchbox label, horizontal, mid-late 20^th C, 5 cm x 3.5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.308.002]

 

Bharat Mata by P.S. Ramachandar Rao, 1937, 40 x 27 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna. [# 114]

MALLIGA, PRICE RE. 0.06., MALLIGA MATCH WORKS, PERNAICKEMPATTI, Printed matchbox label, mid-late 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.125.005]

BHARAT MATA, MADE IN INDIA, A.B., SAFETY MATCHES, Printed matchbox labels, early-mid 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.045.005]

Fig. 02: Waiters serve customers in a restaurant. Sample of calendar image from the Oriental Calendar Manufacturing Ltd., Calcutta, circa 1950s.

Fig. 12: Beautification mural made by artist J.P. Krishna depicting a musician. Anna Salai, Chennai, May 2009. Photograph by McKay Savage.

Ravidas in a Buddha-like pose. Printer/publisher: Samyak Parkashan, New Delhi, 2006. Purchased from Dr. Mahesh Prasad Ahirwar, Department of Ancient Indian History Archaeology and Culture, Banaras Hindu University, Banaras. Book Cover: Bauddh Virasat Ke Purodha: Guru Ravidas (A Proponent of Buddhist Tradition) by Swarup Chander Bauddh.

Fig. 07: Salim Anarkali, Calendar Print, Ajanta Art Calendar, Delhi Calcutta, Priya Paul Collection.

Fig. 9: Ashok Kumar in Bewafa (dir. M.L. Anand, 1952), in the character of an artist (and an intellectual), which highlights the variety of active roles men may perform.

Fig. 17: ‘Herculean’ by Vasu, The Pioneer, 21 October 1947, p. 4. Courtesy British Library, London.