Tag Archives: India

1932: Island Palaces

Posted on June 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

Yoshida Hiroshi: Island Palaces in Udaipur (1932) Udaipur (1931) El Capitan, from the series The United States (1925) Glittering Sea, from the series Inland Sea (1926) Deer in Kasuga (1928)

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1860: Sara Paambu

Posted on June 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

A dhaman (rat snake) (ptyas mucosus), Tiruchirappalli, ca.1860 (source) In Tamil, the snake’s name is sara paambu.

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2003: Bureaucracies Around the World

Posted on May 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

From Jan Bannings’ Bureaucratics series. “Sushma Prasad (b. 1962) is an assistant clerk at the Cabinet Secretary of the State of Bihar (population 83 million) in The Old Secretariat in the state capital, Patna. She was hired “on compassionate grounds” … Continue reading →

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16th Century: The Throne Verse of the Qur’an as a Horse

Posted on May 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

This is the post excerpt. Continue reading →

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