FANCY MATCHES, PRICE 4 NP, EVEREST MATCH CO. KOVILPATTI. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [11.412.011]

H.H.THE MAHARAJA OF KASHMIR AND JAMMU, MADE IN AUSTRIA, SOLO VIENNA.  Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.122.003]

RAJAH. DELUXE. 50'S PRICE 15 PS. SAFETY MATCHES. RAJAH MATCH FACTORY VIRUDHUNAGAR.  Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.310.008]

 

Shivaji, c. 1880, published possibly in Germany after an oil painting by a 1664 Dutch artist Den Haag, Oleograph, 24.5 x34.5 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna. [# 127]

MANGAI, 50’s PRICE 15 Ps., SAFETY MATCHES, SASI MATCH WORKS, KETTIMALANPUDUR, Printed matchbox label, mid-late 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.128.005]

INDIA’S OWN, SAFETY MATCHES, WESTCO, WESTCOAST INDUSTRIES LTD., HARIPAD, TRAVANCORE, Printed matchbox label, early-mid 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.038.002]

Fig. 08: Woman listening to the radio. Sample of calendar image. Oriental Calendar Mfg. Co. Calcutta, circa 1940s.

Fig. 18: Man waiting at bus stop, behind him a mural of natural beauty. Poonamallee High Road, Chennai, March 2010. Photograph by the author.

A calendar by and for the followers of Satsang Sarve Panth Nistara. Purchased from a printers shop in Jalandhar. In this calendar, printed by a low-caste organization called Satsang Sarve Panth Nistara based in Karnal, Haryana, Ravidas is shown meditating, his pose Buddha-like. Printed below him are verses from his poetry.

Fig. 04: Rita Hair Tonic – Grows lovely hair, an ad showing a typically European hair-style (The Hindu, January 1947, Madras)

Fig. 15: Generally, she lowers her head shyly, as evident from Nirupa Roy’s posture in Garibi (dir. Ramchandra Thakur, 1949); even so, her hands mark the face.

Fig. 07: ‘No chance to take a little nap. The mosquitoes are everywhere.’ Bantul tying up the demon with his own tongue: Bantul the Great, Bhautik Alaukik, by Narayan Debnath, Kolkata: Deb Sahitya Kutir, 2010, p. 30 (reprint).

KISAN. THE COMORIN MATCH INDUSTRIES LTD, KOVILPATTI. Printed matchbox label, mid-late 20th c, 5 cm x 3.5 cm, Gautam Hemmady collection, New Delhi, India. [2.010.001]