Tasveer Ghar: A Digital Archive of South Asian Popular Visual Culture Image Gallery: Welcome Posters
Welcome. A new bride welcomes her husband with an elaborate garland and other paraphernalia: a reference to the jai-mala ritual of garlanding in the Hindu marriage ceremony, and also to the classical gandharva form of marriage by the simple exchange of garlands, often glossed as 'love marriage'. (Publisher: Brijbasi, Delhi) |