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spinner? #women had been making yarn from cotton using Charkha in many villages, also made fabric cloth weaving yarns threads. from Manipur Malwa Nagaland to Kachipuram Kutch Kashmir Kaling too? beutifull painting depicts yarn making from South India- Tanjore or Madras
water carrier? Bhisti भिश्ती or भिस्ती is word for men who carried water. but for #women?
several woman servants worked for households of gora sahebs also employed in offices too. few community worked in Indian homes of noblemen? here woman is shown in all her finery #jewellery
here titled as ribbon & rope seller, woman might be making several types of fabric or ropes, threads etc to sell them in market or going door to door marketing, to earn #livelihood, many #crafts #handicraft were as #occupations. thus #women supported family
wife of quail seller? people ate birds too! catching or rearing birds as done in backyard poultry? peacock is depicted here. here to women's contribution in #occupations & #economy is evident
wife of oil merchant? he seems man who extracted oil & taking to sell it. people shown in company paintings of that time seems to be religious-bearing marks of sandal paste, tilak etc. #women wife too worked to compliment & shoulder responsibilities
wife of muslim nobleman? wearing all fine #jewellery #jewelry & colourfull #dress? can you identify?
angrkha or angrakha? payjama, odhni-dupatta?
Wife of Maratha pilgrim! beautifull painting showing ghaghra(lehnga), choli & Odhni- the dress once popular across Bharat, though regional dress are there too.
man shown playing cymbals-reminds of pilgrim people take to visit Pandharpur wari to worship Vitthal-Vithoba, warkari