Nautch girls, Bombay
Source: ebay, Sept. 2007. Retrieved from columbia.edu.
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Balasaraswati, Madras, India, 1934.
Balasaraswati, Madras, India, 1934
Source unknown. Retrieved from: http://thebestofhabibi.com/vol-16-no-3-fall-1997/indian-dance-aesthetics/
“Nautch dancers in India, ca 1860-1870″
Nautch dancers in India, ca 1860-1870
Source: Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and Leiden University Library). Retrieved via Wikimedia Commons.
“Dancing Girl Photo from 1879.”
Dancing Girl Photo from 1879
Source unknown. Retrieved via Wikimedia Commons
“A photo probably by Bourne, from the 1860’s.”
A photo probably by Bourne, from the 1860’s.
Source unknown, Retrieved via Wikimedia Commons
“A Muslim Nautch girl in Jaipur.”
A Muslim Nautch girl in Jaipur
Source unknown. Retrieved via Wikimedia Commons
“A group of dancing girls, a postcard photo, late 1800’s”
A group of dancing girls, a postcard photo, late 1800’s
Source unknown. Retrieved via Wikimedia Commons .
Bourne, Samuel. “Nautch Girls, Kashmir” c.1870
Nautch Girls, Kashmir
Retrieved via Wikimedia Commons
Bourne, Samuel. “Kashmir Dancing Girl” c.1860
Kashmir Dancing Girl
Retrieved via Wikimedia Commons
Borne, Samuel. “A Studio Photo of Dancing Girl” c. 1870
A Studio Photo of Dancing Girl
Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons
‘Nautch Girl Performing,’ 1899 The Queen’s Empire. A pictorial and descriptive record. Volume 2. Cassell and Co. London
Nautch Girl Performing
From Bourne & Shepherd, via Wikimedia Commons
Nautch girls, Hyderabad; Hooper and Western, 1860s
Nautch Girls, Hyderabad; 1860s
From Hooper and Western, via Wikimedia Commons
Nautch girls, Kashmir by Samuel Bourne, 1870.
Nautch Girls, Kashmir, c. 1870
From Samuel Borne, via Wikimedia Commons
Professsional dancing girls in the streets of old Delhi, India, H.C. White co., c.1907
Professional dancing girls in the streets of old Delhi, India
By H.C. White Co., via Wikimedia Commons
Three Nautch girls dancing in costume, by Charles Shepherd, 1903.
Three Nautch Girls Dancing in Costume
By Charles Shepherd [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Unknown Artist, “A nautch girl, Madras Presidency, 1902.” From The Living Races of Mankind, Vol. I. [Hutchinson & Co, London, 1902].
Tamil nautch (dancing girl) (c. 1910)
Published by Hutchinson & Co, London, taken via Wikimedia Commons
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Bourne, Samuel. “Native Nautch at Delhi [or Shalimar?].” Digital South Asian Library, 1864. Accessed 10 February 2021.
Access this photo at the Digital South Asia Library.
Native Nautch at Delhi [or Shalimar?], 1864
Collection Title: India – Groups, 1874.
Shelfmark: Photo 28/2(15)
Copy Negative Number: B.8862
Photographer’s number: 606
K. L. Brajbasi & Co., “A photograph of two dancing girls”
A photograph of two dancing girls, by K. L. Brajbasi & Co., Patna, c.1910’s
By K. L. Brajbasi & Co [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, “Nautch girl dancing with musicians accomp. Calcutta, India”
English: Title: Nautch girl dancing with musicians accomp. Calcutta, India
Abstract: Photo shows a female dancer standing between two musicians, one with drums and the other with a stringed instrument. Physical description: 1 photographic print.
Notes: Title from caption card and item.; Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).; No. 216.; LOT subdivision subject: India.
By Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Bautze, Joachim K. “Umrao Jan Ada: Her carte-de-visite.” Prajnadhara: Essays on Asian Art, History, Epigraphy and Culture, edited by Gerd Mevissen and Arundhati Banerji, Kaveri Books, 2009, pp. 137-152.
Bautze’s essay examines the famous literary courtesan Umrao Jan, identifying the approximate point in history during which Umrao Jan would have lived and demonstrating how courtesans in Lucknow would have looked at that time. Of particular note is the selection of historical photographs displayed at the end of the essay, particularly of courtesans and ta’waifs, and the accompanying descriptions that Bautze provides of each, giving a visual demonstration of how a courtesan like Umrao Jan would have appeared in late 19th century Lucknow.