MATCH KING, FANCY MATCHES, PRICE 4 NP, JANATHA MATCH WORKS, KOVILAPTTI. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [11.413.004]
H.H.THE MAHARAJA OF GWALIOR AND SINDHIA, 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. [19.122.006]
RAM. PRICE 6 NP. DHANABAL MATCH WORKS, NAKKALAMUTHANPATTI. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.314.002]
Shivaji Bhavani (Shivaji and the goddess Bhavani), c. 1925, Ravi Varma Press, Malavli, G.I.P. and Anant Shivaji Desai, Mumbai, Oleograph, 24 x 33.5 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna. [# 130]
MANGO GARDEN, SAFETY MATCHES, Printed matchbox label, mid-late 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.129.004]
CHARKHA LADY, SAFETY MATCHES, MADE IN INDIA, Printed matchbox label, early-mid 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.041.001]
Fig. 11: Woman seated on chair in a verandah. Poster painted by Lekh Raj Shastri, signed 1935. Place of publication: Calcutta.
Fig. 21: Homeless man lying in front of beautification mural that depicts a mountainous landscape. Greenways Road, Chennai, April 2010. Photograph by the author.
Poster by Dera Sachkhand Ballan. Printer/publisher: MC Creations. Purchased from footpath near Dera Sachkhand Ballan. In a collage of different images, Ravidas is placed at the top right corner, while the insignia of Dera Sachkhand Ballan is printed on the top left. The current head of Dera Sachkhand, Niranjan Dass, sits on a chair at the center of the print.
Fig. 07: Thrilling moment. An ad of the “Jantsen Swimsuit and sportswear” depicting a British man and woman in a swimming pool (January 1947, Madras).
Fig. 18: A man – Shammi Kapoor – in a hat, toying with a gun, gives the impression of the action genre.
Fig. 10: Satyajit Ray’s Gosainpur Sargaram (Gosainpur in Heat) as a graphic novel by Abhijit Chattopadhyay, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, 2010, cover.
KODIKKAL, PRICE, 6 NP, RAVINDRA MATCH WORKS, SATTUR. Printed matchbox label, mid-late 20th c, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady collection, New Delhi, India. [2.016.004]
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