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Hindu temple in the fort of Rotasgarh, Bihar. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1796.

India: exterior of the Hindu temple in the Kootub near Delhi. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.

India: interior of the Hindu temple in the Kootub near Delhi. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.

The bathing ghats at Pushkar, near Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Coloured lithograph by W. Walton after Captain Bellen.

Somanātha and other mediaeval temples in Kāṭhiāwād / by Henry Cousens, M.R.A.S., late superintendent, Archaeological Survey of India, Western circle.

A man hangs from hooks in his back, watched by a group of musicians and a crowd of people in a market square in India. Coloured aquatint by T. Medland after C. Gold, ca. 1803.

Hindu temples with lingams by the river, Barolli, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Coloured lithograph by T.C. Dibdin after J. Fergusson.

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Somanātha and other mediaeval temples in Kāṭhiāwād / by Henry Cousens, M.R.A.S., late superintendent, Archaeological Survey of India, Western circle.

A man hangs from hooks in his back, watched by a group of musicians and a crowd of people in a market square in India. Coloured aquatint by T. Medland after C. Gold, ca. 1803.

Hindu temple in the fort of Rotasgarh, Bihar. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1796.

India: interior of the Hindu temple in the Kootub near Delhi. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.

Hindu temples with lingams by the river, Barolli, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Coloured lithograph by T.C. Dibdin after J. Fergusson.