20 1 a–b Illustrations from the manuscript Seventy-two Specimens of Castes in India by T. Vardapillay, from Madura (southern India), 1837. The hand-painted images show members of different Indian castes or religious and ethnic groups. Clothes and jewelry reflect traditional appearance, as yet uninfluenced by European colonialism.
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