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  • A musician with a doyra, a percussion instrument resembling a tambourine, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • An elephant and a leopard confront each other on opposite sides of a stream in an Indian desert. Coloured lithograph by E. Leroux after A.-G. Decamps, 1853.
  • Two men perhaps milling foodstuffs in a vat with a millwheel driven by two oxen. Gouache drawing, 18--.
  • India: a tree in the grounds of a palace under which three hundred Europeans were murdered. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
  • Fakir belonging to a sect known for occasional nudity, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Lucknow, India: the Secundra Bagh interior showing damage done during the Indian Rebellion; skeletons of murdered Indian rebels lie on the ground. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • Seduced by India? Absorbed by its charm? Blinded by its beauty? Remember the India beyond the image : Many people living in the UK have been infected while travelling abroad to the Indian subcontinent. Don't take unnecessary risks. India has one of the highest rates of HIV infection worldwide. To prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV; remember always use a condom / Brent & Harrow fund this initiative ; this poster was jointly produced by Asian Women's Resource Centre and The Naz Project London.
  • A dancing woman with four male musicians of south India. Gouache painting.
  • Beast and man in India : a popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people / by John Lockwood Kipling.
  • Man seated on balcony smoking cocoa nut hookah, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • A Rajput soldier and his wife. Gouache painting.
  • A collection of Indian costumes, types and occupations. Gouache paintings by an Indian artist.
  • Ghats at Veramallee rock, India. Coloured aquatint by J. Wells after Captain E. Trapaud, 1788.
  • India: view from Mount Picket with Metcalfe's House and stables in the distance. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
  • Vignette title to part one of Oriental Scenery. Aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.
  • A cricketer raising his bat as if to defeat AIDS representing an advertisement for Nirodh condoms ; a safe-sex advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1999.
  • Saint Francis Xavier, holding a crucifix, is preaching to a group of people during one of his missions in India. Engraving by G. Edelinck after J. Sourley.
  • A collection of Indian costumes, types and occupations. Gouache paintings by an Indian artist.
  • An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, c. 1804, after C. Gold.
  • Two men smoking cocoa nut hookahs, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • India: a man with a crutch carrying tubes decorated with bells and peacock feathers. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Ghat on the Ganges at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1787.
  • Sculpted figures on the temples of Elephanta. Etching by C. Philips Jacobsz., ca. 1780, after C. Niebuhr.
  • Leprosy in India : report of the Leprosy Commission in India, 1890-91.
  • A message to use condoms while having sex to stop AIDS; an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • Peruvian bark : a popular account of the introduction of chinchona cultivation into British India, 1860-1880 / by Clements R. Markham.
  • A group of men and women, some dressed in saris, and a man with a turban far right with a message in Indic about AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A group of bearded men sitting on the ground.
  • An old man of Simla, holding a stick, standing with a sack on his shoulder. Watercolour by R. Clint, 1866.
  • Hindu fakir with one shoe and half a moustache, Calcutta. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.