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Famine in India, 1874. Creator: Unknown.

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Famine in India, 1874. 'The scene delineated in our front page Engraving [shows] the mode in which the Hindoo people may be seen, upon any occasion of great prevailing distress, to implore the aid of one of their deities...The idol in the form of a bull is called Nandi, and is the Vahan or vehicle ridden by Siva or Maha-Deo, one of the three original divinities...[and] is a great object of adoration...No Hindoo, though dying of starvation, would kill an ox, and when the Europeans first entered this country they were denied the use of beef. The Hindoos appeal to the bull for the relief of their wants because they regard that beast as the emblem of the reproductive power in nature...The bull is figured with ornamental trappings and with a bell hung from his neck. In the scene our Artist has drawn we see people, young and old, before this idol in agonies of prayer. The mother, in despair, holds up her bucha, or child to Nandi, and begs for kana - that is, food. She exclaims, "Hum burra bhookha hai! (We are very hungry!) Humara bucha burra bhookha hai! (My child is very hungry!) Hum log morghia hai! (Our people are dead!)" The Bull Nandi may be deaf to them, but not the English John Bull'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A32_302

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Droits gérés

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41,0Mo (3,8Mo) / 31,1cm x 33,0cm / 3672 x 3900 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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