Image Collections

Bobbili Katha

Example of colonial modes of caste typing

Cover page from a biography of Aluri Sitáramáraju (Note the allusion to images of Rama.)

Photos from Contemporary Bobbili (February 2001)

Sketch of Bobbili Fort ("Drawn and communicated by Edward Cotsford Esq., March, 1776")

Boundary Markers

Contemporary village boundary markers

Photos of recently cut paddy fields

Cloth Styles from throughout Coastal Andhra

Factory Towns throughout coastal Andhra

Maps

Statues

Hyderabad

Visakhapatnam

Sumati Satakam Versions

Larger collection of verses from one palm-leaf version of the Sumati Satakam (Courtesy Adyar Library, Chennai)

Selected verses from Charles Philip Brown's 1832 rendering of the Sumati Satakam (Courtesy Tamil Nadu State Oriental Manuscript Library, Chennai)

Full transcription of one palm leaf version of the Sumati Satakam

Textile workers from four selected towns