Indian Clippings

A selection of images from the the Digital Repository South Asian Studies. The majority are from Sandes[h]a (1913-1934 )– a monthly for young readers, publishing fiction and information on natural sciences. Some also from Girindrakumar Datta, an activist of the Municipal Movement in Calcutta, published in Basantak.

Indian myth and legend

By Donald Alexander Mackenzie (originator of the Scottish Pork Taboo Theory), illustrations from Warwick Goble. Link…

Indian Army

Tales of derring-do from The Param Vir Chakra Winners. Link…

A Monograph on the Wire and Tinsel Industry in Bengal

"There is a legend amongst the wire and tinsel workers of Patna and Calcutta that Joseph, son of Jacob, was the inventor of this industry. He was, so runs the legend, in the habit of spending his leisure hours in embroidering handkerchiefs with tinsel and wire. To this day the novice offers niaz (offerings) to the memory of Joseph when he begins to learn the art and all persons engaged in the industry offer niazto his memory on the last Wednesday of the Muhammadan year." Link…

François Balthazar Solvyns

A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings: Descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos. Calcutta, 1796, 1799. + The Costume of Indostan [pirated edition]. London: Edward Orme [1804-05], 1807. + Les Hindoûs. 4 vols. Paris: Chez L'Auteur, 1808-1812. Link…