Women

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]

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[Original caption] Damayanti is creeping stealthily to catch the golden Hansa. [end]

In the Mahabharata Hansa, the swan, extolls the virtues of King Nala to her and says "If the peerless wed the peerless—blessed must the union be," in one of the…

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Most likely a dancer given her anklets, Goa, as a Portuguese Colony, was not well-represented in British Indian postcards.

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