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  • Parsee women wearing saris: group portrait. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Two women with large nose rings wearing bright saris standing next to some baskets. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • The Albert Victor asylum for lepers, Gohea, Calcutta, India: female patients in white saris on the steps of the female block. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • A group of men and women, some dressed in saris, and a man with a turban far right with a message in Indic about AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Three Indian women dressed in saris sit together with the message that men deserve to go abroad to make money but to avoid foreign women to prevent the spread of AIDS in his own home; an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by S. Ghosh for Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • A woman wearing a red sari. Gouache painting on mica, by an Indian artist.
  • A woman in a yellow sari, riding in a carriage drawn by bullocks. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Famine in India: emaciated young men wearing loin cloths and a woman wearing a sari. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • Famine in India: emaciated young men wearing loin cloths and a woman wearing a sari. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • Famine in India: emaciated young men wearing loin cloths and a woman wearing a sari. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • A woman carrying her HIV positive child on her back within her elaborate sari wrap; with an AIDS prevention message about caring for those who need you by SASO, Lifeline, Lighthouse, Kripa and VHAM. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A man and a woman with their multiple partners, a woman receiving a blood transfusion and tended by a doctor and a woman dressed in a sari with her daughter; an anti-AIDS advertisement in Indic. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A man dressed in white with a blue turban holding a white sack greets a woman in a blue sari and her child on a rural road next to her hut; his horse and cart with further white sacks wait idle nearby; with a message about the dangers of having unprotected sex with foreign women; an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • An Indian man reaches out to touch his young bride who wears a red sari that covers her face; a woman raising her arms in terror as flames envelop her and all her belongings, a man setting off to earn his fortune abroad with a blue sack over his shoulder and a woman (his wife?) staying at home stirring a pot; an AIDS prevention advertisement within a decorative border by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • A soldier and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Chubdah or running footman and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A Patanee couple. Gouache drawing.
  • A man holding a parrot accompanied by a courtesan. Gouache drawing.
  • A bangle maker and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Lakshmi on her lotus in the water with elephant. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • A military couple. Gouache drawing.
  • A cowherd and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A Hindu warrior and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A Paria cook and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Hindu barber and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A Sikh and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A Jain holding a harness accompanied by his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A Moorish man with wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A Moorish soldier and wife from Poona. Gouache drawing.
  • A key keeper and wife offering him a betel leaf. Gouache drawing.