Religion widely practiced in the Indian subcontinent

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Shiva with the Ganges flowing from his head and Parvati seated on a tiger skin with Ganesha, Skanda and Nandi bull surrounded by devotees. Gouache drawing.

Brahman. Gouache drawing.

Snake charmer with wife holding the snake. Gouache drawing.

Ganesha enthroned holding his symbols with his rat. Watercolour drawing.

A couple just married outside a church, a butterfly emblem symbolising a Hindu wedding, and a mosque with a prayer book and two bearded men with the warning of no sex before or outside marriage; an AIDS prevention advertisement for families by GAP-SIRMCE. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

A begging Brahman performing a ritual with his wife. Gouache drawing.

Srirangam, India: water tank in the Temple. Coloured lithograph by T.C. Dibdin after J. Fergusson.

Indian silk weaver and spinner with wife. Gouache drawing.

A battle. Gouache drawing.

A religious figure possibly Shiva being offered food and offerings by two worshippers and two angels. Gouache drawing.

A Brahman. Gouache drawing.

A woman giving her husband some betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

A history of Indian philosophy / [Surendra Nath Dasgupta].

All the mothers are one : Hindu India and the cultural reshaping of psychoanalysis / Stanley N. Kurtz.

Religion and aging in the Indian tradition / Shrinivas Tilak ; foreword by Katherine K. Young.

The Brihat jataka of Varaha Mihira / translated into English by N. Chidambaram Iyer.

Encyclopaedic dictionary of Hinduism : its Mythology, Religion, History, Literature & Pantheon / compiled and edited by Subodh Kapoor.

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Hinduism

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Images referencing Hinduism

Works from the collections

A history of Indian philosophy / [Surendra Nath Dasgupta].

All the mothers are one : Hindu India and the cultural reshaping of psychoanalysis / Stanley N. Kurtz.

Religion and aging in the Indian tradition / Shrinivas Tilak ; foreword by Katherine K. Young.

The Brihat jataka of Varaha Mihira / translated into English by N. Chidambaram Iyer.

Encyclopaedic dictionary of Hinduism : its Mythology, Religion, History, Literature & Pantheon / compiled and edited by Subodh Kapoor.

Hinduism

Images from the collections

Images referencing Hinduism

Works from the collections

A history of Indian philosophy / [Surendra Nath Dasgupta].

All the mothers are one : Hindu India and the cultural reshaping of psychoanalysis / Stanley N. Kurtz.

Religion and aging in the Indian tradition / Shrinivas Tilak ; foreword by Katherine K. Young.

The Brihat jataka of Varaha Mihira / translated into English by N. Chidambaram Iyer.

Encyclopaedic dictionary of Hinduism : its Mythology, Religion, History, Literature & Pantheon / compiled and edited by Subodh Kapoor.

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