English Babu (Native Indian Clerk) Holding a Hookah, 1800s. Creator: Unknown.
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English Babu (Native Indian Clerk) Holding a Hookah, 1800s. Creator: Unknown.

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English Babu (Native Indian Clerk) Holding a Hookah, 1800s. This is an archetypal satirical caricature of an native Indian clerk (babu), a Bengali dapper dandy whose fashion sense combines British and Indian mores with dissonant results. Imitating his British masters, he sits cross-legged on a Victorian chair, holding a hookah, sporting a Prince Albert hairstyle, and wearing European buckled shoes. His posture models popular photo studio portraits of the time. Kalighat painters ridiculed these vain babus as foppish nouveau riche.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM19F80_034

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Droits gérés

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74,8Mo (6,5Mo) / 33,1cm x 56,6cm / 3908 x 6688 (300dpi)

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