Substrate

A working library of design, type, and visual culture.

900 works match

Gem Fletcher and Ken Hermann shoot death-defying Indian tradition The Well of Death

Exhibition Design: Plaid transform The British Library into Mughal India

Photographer Anu Kumar on reconnecting with her Indian heritage, failing exams and recipes for weddings

Short film studies self expression via fashion and cross-dressing in Pakistan

Mahesh Shantaram presents a look beneath the glossy veneer of Indian weddings

The View From Mumbai: the Indian photographers taking back control through self-publishing

Dishoom collaborates with illustrator Manjit Thapp on T-shirts memorialising iconic Indian women

India DSC01465 (16102398513)

India DSC01463 (16102403403)

India DSC01466 (16721269742)

Khichdi (Kitchari) brings together 846 photographs of India, and its people, taken over ten years

From Seoul to Chennai, London and back to Seoul again: Joonho Ko explains how travel has aided his illustrative practice

Moksha captures the diversity of religious rituals across India

Votive Plaque

Votive Plaque

Votive Plaque

Monumental Bodhisattva Head

Shard

Shard

Shard with Figural Decoration

Standing Buddha with Radiate Combined Halo

Reliquary with Ancient Repairs

Buddha

Reliquary

Shard

Shard

Seated Bodhisattva

Panel of a Portable Shrine

Shard

Intaglio Ring with Two Figures

Mirror Handle: Standing Woman

Reliquary with Contents

"Krishna and Balarma Fighting the Enemy", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

Shard

Seated Buddha

Dish with Marine Creature and Couple

The Dream of Queen Maya (the Buddha's Conception)

Shard

Standing Bodisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Garuda Vanquishing the Naga Clan

Iskandarnama (Book of Alexander)

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

Shard

Intaglio Seal with Footprints of the Buddha (Buddhapada)

Wrestler's Weight with Hercules and the Nemean Lion; Wrestling Scene (reverse)

Vajradharma Lokeshvara

Vairochana, the Transcendent Buddha of the Center

Portable Shrine with the Buddha Shakyamuni Preaching his First Sermon

Reliquary in the Shape of a Stupa

Reliquary

Dish with Apollo and Daphne

Panel of a Portable Shrine

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

Tara

Fragment of a Vessel with a Dionysian Scene

Vajrapani Attends the Buddha at His First Sermon

Reliquary with Contents

Shard

Enthroned Buddha Granting Boons

Box Lid with a Bull

Standing Bodhisattva, probably Maitryeya (Buddha of the Future)

Shard

Ritual Incense Burner

Procession of Five Figures

Plaque in the Form of a Standing Female Figure

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

Head of the Fasting Siddhartha

Seal with an Ox

Reliquary in the Shape of a Stupa

Shard

Pair of Ear Plugs with Hamsas (Wild Geese)

"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

Mold for a Buddha's Head

Shard

Hinged Armlet

Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collection)

Dish with a Mythological Couple (Perhaps Apollo and Daphne)

Standing Buddha