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Directory of libraries in Delhi / compiled and edited by S.K. Bhatia & Surender Kumar.

A tradesman weighs out rice in an outdoor market place. Rice is the staple food of India and symbolises prosperity, wealth and fertility. It is sprinkled during pujas (acts of worship) and ritual diagrams are made of coloured rice

1 painting : watercolour, with fine brush ; image 9.5 x 11.1 cm

Delhi: selling rice in a bazaar. Watercolour by an Indian painter.

One of a series of 6 cards ("Let's take a trip to the Medicine Corner") featuring the work of BLOT!, "or Basic Love Of Things, a one-of-a-kind live mixed media and AV performance ensemble" who won the Wellcome Trust International Engagement Award 2015. Their work on an exploration of informal medicine in India for the Wellcome Collection global project, Medicine Corner and will continue throughout 2015, leading to an exhibition in Mumbai in January 2016.

Let's take a trip to the Medicine Corner.

Let's take a trip to the Medicine Corner

1 sheet : 1 colour illustration ; 13 x 18 cm.

A third generation hakim in Old Delhi / BLOT! ; photo credit: BLOT!.

India: part of a panoramic view of Delhi taken from the Jami Masjid mosque. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.

259 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Two native narratives of the mutiny in Delhi / translated from the originals by the late Charles Theophilus Metcalfe.

A washer man (dhobi wallah) performing one of the backbreaking occupations of non-industrialised societies, essential to hygiene

1 painting : watercolour, with fine brush ; image 14 x 11 cm

Delhi: a washerman washing clothes. Watercolour by an Indian painter.

1 photograph : photoprint, colour ; sheet 22 x 34 cm

Delhi: an anatomical model advertising a pharmacy. Colour photograph by Ben Dray, 1993.

Painted before additions were made to the tower in 1829

1 painting : gouache, with watercolour ; image 43.9 x 63.7 cm

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Directory of libraries in Delhi / compiled and edited by S.K. Bhatia & Surender Kumar.

Delhi: selling rice in a bazaar. Watercolour by an Indian painter.

A third generation hakim in Old Delhi / BLOT! ; photo credit: BLOT!.

India: part of a panoramic view of Delhi taken from the Jami Masjid mosque. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.

Two native narratives of the mutiny in Delhi / translated from the originals by the late Charles Theophilus Metcalfe.

Delhi: a washerman washing clothes. Watercolour by an Indian painter.

Delhi: an anatomical model advertising a pharmacy. Colour photograph by Ben Dray, 1993.

India: part of a panoramic view of Delhi taken from the Jami Masjid mosque. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.

Delhi: Qutab Minar, adjoining ruins and the tomb of Imam Zamin. Watercolour by Ghulam Ali Khan, ca. 1820.

India: panoramic view of Delhi from Hindu Rao's house. Photograph by F. Beato.

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Directory of libraries in Delhi / compiled and edited by S.K. Bhatia & Surender Kumar.

Delhi: selling rice in a bazaar. Watercolour by an Indian painter.

A third generation hakim in Old Delhi / BLOT! ; photo credit: BLOT!.

India: part of a panoramic view of Delhi taken from the Jami Masjid mosque. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.

Two native narratives of the mutiny in Delhi / translated from the originals by the late Charles Theophilus Metcalfe.

Delhi: a washerman washing clothes. Watercolour by an Indian painter.

Delhi: an anatomical model advertising a pharmacy. Colour photograph by Ben Dray, 1993.

India: part of a panoramic view of Delhi taken from the Jami Masjid mosque. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.

Delhi: Qutab Minar, adjoining ruins and the tomb of Imam Zamin. Watercolour by Ghulam Ali Khan, ca. 1820.

India: panoramic view of Delhi from Hindu Rao's house. Photograph by F. Beato.

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