A pierced nose and an unadulterated smile
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"Are you charmed yet ?"
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A Lady of the Gouli Community
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Portrait of a nobleman, Mysore traditional painting
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The old Mysore turban meets the western suit to create a new idea of formal wear
Portrait of M.V. Gopalaswamy who started Mysore Radio |  |
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Ramprasad Bismil -- freedom fighter
Rephotographed from a painting. Original artist unknown |
Portrait of Bahubali
Rephotographed from a painting; original artist unknown |  |
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Guru Rabindranath Tagore
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A young girl in an adult sari
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The hard working field help smiling boy
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Drummer in colorful clothing
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Indian girl
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Muria tribal youngster
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Half girl, half woman
A girl in a silk sari |
Map showing important temples of North and Central India
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Anxiety of groomhood -- A Mapille groom
The bride was in fact in a seperate village, not with the groom! |
Cooking Utensils
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Drinking scenes -- food habits in the medieval Deccan
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Medieval hairstyles -- Southern India
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Cave Complex of an Ancient University
Remnants of a campus, Ellora |
Oriental Scholar of Buddhist period
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The design and decorations of palm-leaf texts
Paper arrived in India around the 13th century, but the art and science of palm-leaf texts have continued till this day. |
The Romance of Champavati and Poet Billana
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Romancing the Teacher
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A teacher examines the homework submitted by the princess.
A ninth century illustration from Karnataka |  |
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A Girl Practising the Veena instrument
Detail from a lithograph, 19th century |
Flowers of Mysore -- water color painting by Mukta Venkatesh
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Sunflowers -- water color by Mukta Venkatesh
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A Close-up of Bullocks
Detail of a painted leather puppet |  |
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Indian elephant and its riders leather puppet
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Mythological figure a leather puppet
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Leather puppet of a camel
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Portrait of Sardar Bhagat Singh
Re-photographed from a rare picture. Courtesy of National Archives |  |
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Lajja Gowri as the Deity of Fertility
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Shankaracharya, the great reformer of Hinduism
Shankaracharya advocated the Advaita (monism) philosophy
Detail from a picture postcard |  |
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Logo of the state of Madhya Pradesh
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The tiger of Mysore -- Tippu Sultan Sahib
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Mother and daughter, Madhya Pradesh forest
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Sardar Bhagat Singh
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"Tala"-- folk artist with cymbals
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Portait of a Yakshagana Artist
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A drummer from Dharwad
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An Indian woman in sari
Having dense, long hair was/is considered a sign of female beauty in India |  |
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The water girl -- water color painting by K. L. Kamat
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Painted face of a young boy
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A young, wide-eyed boy
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Chaduranga -- Kannada writer and critic
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Span of Aurangjeb's Mogul empire
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Span of Akbar's empire
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House of
Pictures 
