[Original caption] Sita Vanawasa :– Sita, when captured by Ravan, the king of Lanka, was carried and kept in a forest named "Ashok-van" by him, and he ordered demons to watch her. This picture represents that Sita sat thinking under a tree. [end]
Among the first series of postcards printed in India by The Ravi Varma Press, this lithograph by the German artist at the Press, Paul Gerhardt, shows how in these very early days, placing the title was not quite fixed by convention, It could easily
The eighth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
The seventh card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
The tenth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [First]
The ninth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
The sixth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
The most interesting of his Dhurandhar's later postcards were printed by The Lakshmi Art Printing Press. The Press belonged to Dadasaheb Phalke (1870–1944), a businessman who once worked at the Ravi Varma Press and had been a student at the J.J.
The second card in Dhurandhar's Coquettish Maid Servant Series. [Next]
The third card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. Note the chapati flour handprints on the husband's back. [Next]
