"Several celebrations by the Moors like the New Year celebration," Bengal, January 1664, from 'Wouter Schouten's travels into the East Indies', 2nd ed., Amsterdam, 1708

Source: ebay, Aug. 2010

*The veneration of the standards, a watercolor, c.1790-1800* (BL)

*Muharram festival procession. Inscribed: 'Mahomedan Procession. Mahorum Festival'. Opaque watercolour, c.1828* (BL)

*'Mooharrum Procession. Mussalmann'. Gouache on mica. 1830-1840.* (BL)




"Festival of the Moharram, Funeral of Houssein and Hoossein, India," by H. Melville, Fisher, Son, & Co., London, c.1840; *a very large scan of this engraving*

Source: ebay, Mar. 2011

*'A Mohammedan Procession (commemorative) of some event connected with the Subjugation of the Natives of India who were represented in a ridiculous and degrading light, & bound together with Chains'. Gouache on mica, c.1850* (BL) --a description by someone who clearly didn't understand what these street performers were up to

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