CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Subject: Essays dated 1892-3 for un-issued stamps depicting the Thakur of Palitana, a state in Kathiawar. Note the care taken by the English printer De La Rue & Co. and the involvement of inquiries from two companies. [Thakur of Palitana]

Subject: Head of Varahi

Subject: Head of Varahi

Subject: Walter Spink in photo [Siva Stele from Parel]

Subject: Center figure [Siva Stele from Parel]

Subject: Figure at right [Siva Stele from Parel]

Subject: Standing Buddha

Subject: Three-quarter right side view

Subject: Three-quarter left side view

Subject: Upper portion, three-quarter left side view

Subject: Field above temple

Subject: Votive lingams on path down to Bagmati River

Subject: Profile, from right

Subject: Three-quarter rear view

Subject: Vishnu Jalasayana and Lingam

Subject: Trishala's Grief, from a Kalpasutra (Book of Sacred Precepts)

Subject: Illustrated Trishala's Grief, from a Kalpasutra (Book of Sacred Precepts)

Subject: Architectural Ensemble from a Ceiling of a Jain Meeting Hall

Subject: Upper portion, Pediment with Jina; Architectural Ensemble from a Ceiling of a Jain Meeting Hall

Subject: Balcony with Sri Lakshmi; Architectural Ensemble from a Ceiling of a Jain Meeting Hall

Subject: Right portion, Fa?ade with Fly-whisk Bearers; Architectural Ensemble from a Ceiling of a Jain Meeting Hall

Subject: Mahinder Singh died in 1876 at the age of twenty-three. Rajendra Singh then succeeded to the gaddi as a four year old and died in 1900. Note how the artist has utilized many of the conventions of Indian painting such as two-dimensional depiction of the ground. Although miniature paintings usually showed heads in profile, this is a full-face portrait. [Overpainted Photograph of Maharaja Mahinder Singh or his Son Rajendra Singh]

Subject: Maharajas of Patiala succeeded to the gaddi at the ages of 10 in 1862, four in 1876, and nine in 1900. [Durbar of a Young Maharaja]

Subject: Two stamps from Patiala