1940s india

19th century fashion and clothing - Fashion is a word which brings a flash of colour to one’s mind, along with a dash of glamour whenever mentioned. Women take over fashion in bold styles and cultures. Let’s take a look at this dynamic transformation of women’s fashion from the 1950’s.

The adaptation of the salwar kameez with modernity is perhaps less documented than the sari. In the 1920s and 1930s, the new kind of sari drape was the on trend garment. By the 1940s, the salwar-ka…

It is a cool midsummer’s evening in Mayfair’s Cork Street – the nucleus of London’s contemporary art world. Number 33 is the professional home of Prahlad Bubbar – collector of Indian and Islamic art – and the location of his new exhibition, The New Medium: Photography in India 1855-1930. The New Medium is a neat survey of…

"Indian Memory Project was founded in February 2010, by Anusha Yadav. It is an online, curated, visual and oral-history based archive that traces a personal history of the Indian Subcontinent, its people, cultures, professions, cities, development, traditions, circumstances and their consequences. Applying images, letters and stories from family archives, it reconstructs a visual history that is emotionally rich, vivid, informative and even more surprising than we think.."

Princess Mehrunisa of Rampur

A Muslim Couple in 1940's

Beautiful Indian Lady in Saree - Vintage Photograph

The bindi/pottu/sindoor/tikli – whatever name it be known by – is probably the most emblematic of Indian elements of attire and also has a long history. It is symbolic (as a signifier o…

Students use to tie their hairs to a nail in the wall to prevent themselves from falling asleep while studying late at night.