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Courtesan or dancer or गुणीजन performing snake charmer dance in court of young prince or Raja?, 19th century painting from Jaipur probably. Courtiers join raja. All accompanying musicians playing instruments while standing.
नगाड़ा सारंगी तबला & गायिका
Well decorated court room

Bullock Cart in Punjab? or Sikh is riding in this beautifull carriage, when bulls run those bells hanging in their neck make musical sound? & keep signaling that cart is moving. this has 4 wheels diff from common used by farmers in villages
19th century Painting @ExploreWellcome

Ceremonial Bullock cart बैलगाड़ी there can be various regional names too
its beautifully decorated thus it seems it is used for procession, wedding or ? well covered richly decorated even OX or bulls are adorning beautifull cloths over them
19th century Painting @ExploreWellcome

Red, Blue and White Lotus of Hindostan’ from ‘Oriental Memoirs 1813’ by James Forbes
Beautifull rich documentation of flora fauna via company paintings
Flower

Bombax Malabaricum aka Semal/Shalmali/Silk Cotton Tree from ‘Illustrations of Indian Botany’ by Robert Wight, 1834
paintings in this book done by Rungiah and Govindoo
सेमल रुई is very soft like silk, considered warm!

now time to come out of slumber! wake up

Ramayan, Yuddha Kand युद्धकाण्ड
Painting depicts death of Kumbhakarna, by Sahib Din at
Udaipur, 1652
his arm legs & finally head, severed by Shri Rama's arrows, crashes to ground &crushes part of city of Lanka
@britishlibrary

कच्ची कली अनारकली!
Flower 18th century painting from Murshidabad
Nice beautiful documentation of #biodiversity of India in company paintings though few mughal paintings too are done on flora fauna

titled as Hindu Calendar on painting on cloth/fabric 1871-72? from Rajasthan with images of Lord Vishnu Ganesh & Krishna, various signs of Zodiac (rashi?)
from Library of Congress
such things were in continuation of centuries old knowledge of astronomical or Jyotish Science

Shoemaker & wife (Chuckler's Wife) Painting from Trichinopoly, ca. 1850, company painting? @V_and_A
from set of 17 paintings on castes /occupation
Trichy ?

Potter & wife, 1785 Painting from Madras @V_and_A he is making pot of potter's wheel while she making khaprail (tiles?) खपरैल we call it, used on roof, many such tiles laid to protect roof from rain.
from Boileau Album