g katyan misraさんのイラストまとめ

playing cards, painting by B.Prabha
Here she painted women of high class? Playing cards in spare times. Could be based on any palace royal setting?

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art Collection

#Parsi fire temple at Bombay
Zoroastrians, compelled to migrate from their homeland #Persia or so called #Iran in order to escape persecution by INVADERS?,
they are true original #Persian
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Dancing girl? why such name or term was used for professional dancers- they were artists, who earned livelihood by their art!
postcard showing dancer from Bombay, P Gerhardt?
tabla & Sarangi player accompanying her while standing, note the cloth tied to support instruments

Bayadere, La bayadère
European term for devadasi (Dancing girl?), female Hindu dancer, especially one at southern Indian temple?
borrowed from French bayadère:-"professional female dancer in India"
from Portuguese bailhadera "female dancer"
Dancer painting, 1840

@V_and_A 🙏
working #women shoulder double burden ( i shall use word responsibility) as these women to earn livelihood via occupations professions, had to carry children infants on back, tuff life they had as Basket-maker's wife too!
Painting, Trichinopoly @V_and_A
1. 1860-1870
2. 1870

#water & #women are inseparable in India! fetching & giving water on demand in family had been responsibility of women of households (when there was tap water)
Beautifull painting of lady carrying water in pot
may be Patna kalam? from Wanderings of a Pilgrim by Fanny Parkes

Vaishya वैश्य महाजन सेठ shresthi श्रेष्ठी may be the word Chetti -Chetty or Chettiar is same, traders
but here man holding banana & his wife depicted
painter from Tanjore (Thanjavur), ca. 1840 @ExploreWellcome
word also used for agriculturist cattle breeder? or land owners?

company painting documented what aliens to India saw & amazed with?
different castes including snake charmer, brick-layer, basket-maker, potter & wives depicted here
could be from Tanjore or Thanjavur? sari from Tamil Nadu?
@ExploreWellcome

Basket weaver & his wife? she is carrying child tied to her back. Usual & common technic in our villages where women work all day in fields & outside home
painting from Tanjore (Thanjavur) ca. 1840 via @ExploreWellcome
company painting on caste costume of India

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