AKBAR SHAH SWEETENED CIGARETTES. MATCHES MADE IN AUSTRIA. [illegible small text] Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.002.003]

H.H.THE MAHARAJA OF MYSORE, MADE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, SOLO WORKS. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.122.011]
 

RED BIRD. SAFETY MATCHES. PRICE 25 PS. SIVAMANI MATCH WORKS. CHINNAMOOPANPATTI. USE RED BIRD MATCHES. 50'S.  Illusatration of a ten paise and a five paise coins. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.324.002]

Mir Jafar, c. 1900, Chitrashala Poona, Oleograph, 70 x 50 cm. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna. [# 136]

MOONFLOWER, PRICE 5 NP., SAFETY MATCHES, GITANCHALI MATCH INDUSTRIES, SANKARANAINARKOVIL, Printed matchbox label, mid-late 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.155.003]

CHARKA, M.S.K.V.I.Bd. MADRAS, Quality Matches, HOSUR UNIT, PRICE 6Ps. 50’s, Printed matchbox label, early-mid 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.041.016]

Fig. 16: Family sharing a meal. Framing poster by Oriental Calender Manufacturing Ltd., Dumdum [Calcutta], circa 1940s.

Fig. 26: Artist working on beautification mural. He holds a black-and-white copy of the cover page of the comic book from the Amar Chithra Katha series. Greenways Road, Chennai, April 2010. Photograph by the author.

Fig. 12: The joy of the game depends upon the PLAYER's, An ad for the Players cigarettes. The Hindu, Madras, 1946.

Fig. 23: ‘Men on top’/women awaiting their sexual advances, was perhaps epitomized in the film Barsaat (dir. Raj Kapoor, 1949).

Fig. 15: Jum, by Sabyasachi Chakma, Dhaka: Dhaka Comics, 2018, cover.

LONELY,KMCO,SAFETY MATCHES, MADE IN INDIA. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20th century, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady, New Delhi, India. [2.083.004]