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S.N	Place	Theme	Artist	Number of cards /suit/shape/ Material used/ Size/additional information	Year of the set
1	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Dashavatara	Banamali Mahapatra	288 /24 / round / card/ 10.2 cms. dia	2007
2	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Dashavatara	Banamali Mahapatra	240 / 20 / round / patta / 7.5 cms. Dia.	1995
3	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Dashavatara	Banamali Mahapatra	192 / 16 / rectangle / card / 9.9cms. x 6.75cms	1988
4	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Dashavatara	Banamali Mahapatra	144 / 12 / round / card/ 8.75 cms. dia. / With LakshmiDevi on all pradhan cards. Darachitri	1995
5	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Dashavatara	Banamali Mahapatra	120/10/round /card/ 8.2 cms. dia. All rajas on elephants, pradhans on horses- Facsimile from a set in British Museum, London.	2002
6	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Dashavatara	Banamali Mahapatra	120/10/ round / patta / 7.5 cms. dia.	1996
7	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Dashavatara	Banamali Mahapatra	144/12/oval / patta/ 6.75 x 9.0 cms / bird version	1996
8	Chikiti, Orissa	Dashavatara	Appana Mahapatro	120/10/round / patta / 8.00 cms. dia / bird version - LakshmiDevi with Vishnu in reclining posture.	1993
9.	Chikiti, Orissa	Dashavatara	Appana Mahapatro	192/16/round / card / 8.2 cms. dia / Vishnu below parasol.	1993
10	Chikiti, Orissa	Dashavatara	Appana Mahapatro	120/10/round / patta / 8.2 cms. dia. /Bird version- Vishnu with Sheshnag / Vishnu with Laxmidevi on raja cards	1993
11	Chikiti, Orissa	Dashavatara	Appana Mahapatro	120/10/round / card / 8.75 cms. dia./ bird version	1993
12	Parlakhemundi	Dashavatara	Prakashchandra Mahapatra	192/16/round / patta / 8.2 cms. dia.	1993
13	Puri	Dashavatara	Not known	144/12/ (Less 2 cards) /round / card /9.0 cms. dia./ excellent / (total 142 cards-missing cards are of raja and pradhan of Kartikeya suit)	1998
14	Puri	Dashavatara	Not known	144/12/rectangular/ palm leaf / 7.7cms. x 3.8cms / needle-carved	1986
15	Berhampur, Orissa	Dashavatara	Sitakanta Mahapatra	120/10/small-round / patta / 6.6cms. dia.	1988
16	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Navagunjara (Ath-Rangi) Nine Limbed animal as Vishnu on raja cards	Banamali Mahapatra	96/8/round / patta / 8.75 cms. dia	1997
17	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Navagunjara (Ath-Rangi) bird version	Banamali Mahapatra	96/8/large-round / patta / 8.75 cms. dia	1997
18	Puri, Orissa	Navagunjara (Ath-Rangi)	Not known	96/8/rectangular / card / 9.2cms. x 5.5cms.	1987
19	Puri, Orissa	Navagunjara (Ath-Rangi)	Not known	96/8/rectangular / sandalwood / 7.7cms. x 4.2cms./ painted on sandalwood	1988
20	Puri, Orissa	Moghul ganjifa	Not known	96/8/round / patta / 6.7 cms. dia./ Bird version. Bazar Quality	1988
21	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Ath-Rangi Sara: Krishna-Radha Ashtamall Eight episodes of Bal-Krishna, with demons.	Banamali Mahapatra	96/8/rectangular / card / 6.3cms. x 8.75cms.	1990
22	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Ath-Rangi Sara: Krishna on raja and Radha on vazir cards	Banamali Mahapatra	96/8/round / card / 7.6 cms. dia. / Bird version.	1995
23	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Ath-Rangi Sara: Balaram on raja cards; Krishna on pradhan cards	Banamali Mahapatra	96/8/round / card / 7.6 cms. dia.	1995
24	Chikiti, Orissa	Ath-Rangi Sara: Krishna-Balarama Ashtmali-in standing position	Appana Mahapatro	96/8/round / patta / 7.6 cms. dia.	1993
25	Chikiti, Orissa	Ath-Rangi Sara: Krishna-Radha sitting on a swing, Bal Krishna on pradhan cards / extended version	Apparna Mahapatro	120/10/round / card / 7.5 cms. dia.	1993
26	Parlakhemundi, Orissa	Ath-Rangi-Sara: Krishna-Balarama Ashtamali-in sitting position	Not known	96/8/round / patta / 6.75 cms. dia.	1990
27	Parlakhemundi, Orissa	Ath-Rangi Sara: Krishna Radha Ashtamali-in standing position	Prakshchandra Mahapatra	96/8/round / patta / 7.7 cms. dia.	1990
28	Parlakhemundi, Orissa	Moghul ganjifa	Prakashchandra Mahapatra	96/8/round / patta / 7.3cms. dia	1990
29	Parlakhemundi, Orissa	Moghul ganjifa	Prakashchandra Mahapatra	96/8/round / patta / 7.3 cm. dia./ bird version	1992
30	Parlakhemundi, Orissa	Navagraha (Nine Planets) ganjifa	Prakashchandra Mahapatra	108/9/round / patta /8.2 cms. dia.	1993
31	Chikiti, Orissa	Ath-Rangi sara -Rama Pattabhisheka (Enthroning of Sri Ramachandra) Eight various incidents in Rama's life	Appana Mahapatro	96/8/round / patta / 7.8 cms. dia.	1992
32	Chikiti, Orissa	Ath-Rangi Sara- Rama-Pattabhisheka. Eight other Episodes in Rama’s Life	Appana Mahapatro	96/8/round / patta / 11.6 cms. dia. / Large pictures with minute detail.	1993
33	Berhampur, Orissa	Ath-Rangi sara rath-hathi (Chariot Elephant) Bird version	Sitakanta Mahapatra	96/8/round / patta / 6.7 cmc. dia.	1988
34	Berhampur, Orissa	Ath-Rangi sara rath-hathi (Chariot Elephant)	Sitakanta Mahapatra	96/8/round / patta / 6.7 cms. dia.	1988
35	Puri, Orissa	Navagunjara ganjifa-nine limbed animal-Vishnu and pradhan being Arjuna	Not Known	96/8/round-small sized / On coloured sticker cards / 5.7cms. dia. (Total-95 cards-one card missing – 3 of ghulam)	1988
36	Chikiti, Orissa	Navagraha (Nine planets) ganjifa	Appana Mahapatro	108/9/round / patta / 7.8cms. dia. (Total- 107- one card missing-raja of chandra)	1990
37	Chikiti, Orissa	Navagraha ganjifa-extended version of nine planets- with addition of Pluto, Uranus, & Neptune	Appana Mahapatro	144/12/round / cards / 8.75cms. dia.	1992
38	Chikiti, Orissa	Ashta Dikpala ganjifa with animal vehicles as suit symbols	Appana Mahapatro	96/8/round / card / 9.8 cms. dia.	1992
39	Chikiti, Orissa	Ashta -dikpala ganjifa with weapons and attributes as suit symbols	Appana Mahapatro	96/8/round / card /8.2 cms. dia.	1992
40	Chikiti, Orissa	Rama Pattabhisheka Ath-Rangi Sara extended version of 96 cards with two addition suits	Appana Mahapatro	120/10/round / patta / 7.8 cms. dia.	1992
41	Chikiti, Orissa	Dasamahavidya-ten forms of devi. With Shiva on all the raja cards. pradhan cards show ten different pictures of Parvati's forms	Appana Mahapatro	120/10/round-large / card / 9.5 cms. dia.	2002
42	Chikiti, Orissa	Dasamahavidya-ten forms of devi. With Devi on tiger on all raja cards. pradhan cards show ten different pictures of Parvati's forms	Appana Mahapatro	120/10/round/ card / 8.75 cms. dia..	2002
43	Chikiti, Orissa	Bhagawat Rahasya ganjifa-episodes from Srimad Bhagawat. Story of Bhagwat in ten parts	Appana Mahapatro	144/12/round / card /8.75 cms. dia.	1990
44	Chikiti, Orissa	Mahabharata ganjifa-twelve scenes of the epic.	Appana Mahapatro	144/12/round/ card / 9.9 cms. dia.	1992
45	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Arundhati and Saptarishis ganjifa	Banamali Mahapatro	96/8/round/ patta / 9.99 cms. dia.	2000
46	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Arundhati and Saptarishis ganjifa-fascimile of an earlier set painted on ivory in German Musuem	Banamali Mahapatro	96/8/round / patta / 9.99 cms. dia.	2000
47	Behrampur, Orissa	Arundhati and Saptarishis ganjifa	Sitakanta Mahapatro	96/8/round/ card / 7.5 cms. dia.	1998
48	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Sapta matrika ganjifa	Banamali Mahapatro	96/8/round / card / 8.7 cms. dia.	2000
49	Behrampur, Orissa	Sapta matrika ganjifa	Sitakanta Mahapatro	96/8/round / patta / 6.7cms. dia.	2000
50	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Dancer ganjifa - Vishnu on rajas, and Arjun on pradhan cards- Dancers on numeral cards	Banamali Mahapatro	120/10/round/ card / 9.9cms. dia.	1998
51	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Dancer ganjifa with Indra on raja cards/Indrani on Vazir cards- Dancers on numeral cards	Banamali Mahapatra	120/10/round / card / 8.8 cms. dia.	1998
52	Parlakhemundi, Orissa	Ramayana ganjifa. Colourful episodes are found in this set. Facsimile of earlier set now in the V& A Museum, London, made by Vaishnav Mahapatra, 125 years ago.	Prakashchandra Mahapatra	120/10/round / patta / 8.5cms. dia.	1996
53	Sonepur, Subernapur dist, Orissa	Sonepur Ramayana Ganjappa showing Sri Rama's army on first 72 cards and Ravan's army on the last 72 cards.	Satyanarayan Maharana	144/12/round / patta / Putalabandi / 6.3cms. dia.	1995
54	Sonepur, Subernapur dist, Orissa	Sonepur Ramayana Ganjappa	Satyanarayan Maharana	144/12/round/ patta / 3.8cms. dia.	1995
55	Sonepur, Subernapur dist, Orissa	Sonepur Ramayana Ganjappa Putalabandi.	Satyanarayan Maharana	144/12/round/ card / 8.75cms. dia.	1996
56	Sonepur, Subernapur Dist. Orissa	Sonepur Ramayana Bicycle Ganjappa	Satyanarayan Maharana	144/12/round / card / 5.6 cms. dia. All the 12 Pradhans are shown riding bicycles!	1998
57	Sonepur, Subernapur dist, Orissa	Sonepur Ramayana Ganjappa	Gyananidhi Maharana	144/12/round/card / 8.2cms. dia./Putalabandi	2007
58	Sonepur, Subernapur Dist, Orissa	Sonepur Ramayana Motorbike Ganjappa	Gyannidhi Maharana	144/12/round / card / 6.1 cms. dia. Different motorcycle on each pradhan card	2007
59	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Nakshatra (28 constellations)	Jagannath Mahapatra	336/28/round / patta / 7.00 cms. dia.	1986
60	Puri, Orissa	Rashi (Zodiac signs) ganjifa	Not Known	144/12/rectangular / patta / 9.0cms. x 6.0cms.	1985
61	Chikiti, Orissa	Rashi (Zodiac signs) ganjifa	Appana Mahapatro	144/12/round/ card/ 10.2 cms. dia./ surya on raja cards	1990
62	Parlakhemundi, Orissa	Naqsh	Prakashchandra Mahapatra	60/5/round / patta / 7.2 cms. dia.	1990
63	Parlakhemundi, Orissa	Naqsh	Prakashchandra Mahapatra	60/5/round/patta / 6.2 cms. dia.	1990
64.	Bishnupur, W.Bengal	Dashavatara	Sital Fouzdar	120/10/round / patta / 5.2cms. dia.	2000
65	Bishnupur, W.Bengal	Dashavatara	Sital Fouzdar	120/10/round/ patta / 7.2cms. dia.	2000
66	Bishnupur, W.Bengal	Dashavatara	Sital Fouzdar	120/10/round/ card / 15.4cms. dia.	2000
67	Bishnupur, W. Bengal	Dashavatara	Bansori Fouzdar	120/10/round / patta / 10.5 cms. dia.	1992
68	Bishnupur, W.Bengal	Dasamahavidya (ten forms of Durga) ganjifa	Bansori Fouzdar	120/10/round/ patta/ 10.8cms. dia.	1996
69	Bishnupur, W.Bengal	Naqsh	Subal Fouzdar	48/4/round/ patta / 11.5cms. dia./ Four suits of 12 cards each	2002
70	Bishnupur, W.Bengal	Naqsh	Sital Fouzdar	48/4/round / patta / 2.00cms. dia.	2004
71	Bishnupur, W.Bengal	Naqsh	Sital Fouzdar	48/4/rectangular / patta /9.0 cms. x 6.0 cms.	2005
72	Nirmal, Andhra Pradesh	Dashavatara	Busongini Nirmal	120/10/small/ card / 5.2cms. dia.	2004
73	Nirmal, Andhra Pradesh	Dashavatara	Busongini Nirmal	120/10/round / card / 7.3 cms. dia./ Fascimile Original of 1790, of Nossom, Deccan in Vienna Museum	2007
74	Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh	Dashavatara Deccan-1840 Older	Not Known	120/10/round, small / card / 4.60cms. dia	1840
75	Nirmal, Andhra Pradesh	Mughal ganjifa- Changa Rani	Busongini Nirmal	96/8/round / card / 5.3cms. dia.	2006
76	Nirmal, Andhra Pradesh	Mughal ganjifa- Rajasthan Style	Busongini Nirmal	96/8/round / card / 5.2cms. dia.	2007
77	Nirmal, Andhra Pradesh	Mughal ganjifa- Changa Rani	Busongini Nirmal	96/8/rectangle/ card /9.3cm. X 6.2cms	1994
78	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Not known older set	117/10 (117 cards from 120 cards-three less) round, patta / 6.5 cms. dia.	Early 20 th century
79	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Not known older set	116/10 (less 4), round / patta / 4.5 cms dia	Late 19th century
80	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Workshop	120/10/ Darachitri/ round / card / 9.9 cms. dia.	1990
81	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Kanekar	120/10/Darachitri/round / card / 11.00 cms. dia.	2007
82	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Workshop	120/10/ round / card / 9.9 cms./ pure gold and silver leaf painted	1995
83	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Workshop	120/10/round / card / 8.2 cms dia	1990
84	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Workshop	120/10/square / card / 8.2” x 8.2”/ 10-colour background	1998
85	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Workshop	120/10/square/ card/ 3.9cms. x 3.9cms.	1998
86	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Workshop	120/10/ round/ card / 5.2 cms.dia.	2000
87	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Workshop	120/10/round/ card / 3.00cms. dia.	1986
88	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Workshop	120/10/round / card / 8.2 cms. dia / bird version	1986
89	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Workshop	120/10/ round/ card /8.2 cms. dia/ animal version	1986
90	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Not known	120/10/ round / card / 8.2 cms. dia./ Excellent workmanship; minute details, supplied with jari cloth bag- different school.	1998
91	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Not known	120/10/ round / card / 8.75 cms. dia. /another school	1988
92	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dashavatara	Facsimile	120/10/round / card / 7.8 cms. dia. / a facsimile of an earlier 18th century AD painted Dashavatara ganjifa cards of Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh	2006
93	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Moghul ganjifa- Changa Kanchan	Workshop	96/8/round / card / 8.2 cms. dia.	1986
94	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Moghul ganjifa- Changa Kanchan	Workshop	96/8/round/ card /3.00cms. dia.	2000
95	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Moghul ganjifa- Rajasthan style	Workshop	96/8/round / card / 5.0cms. dia.	2006
96	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Dhanalakshmi ganjifa- nine forms of Goddess Sri Lakshmi Devi	Workshop	108/9/rectangular / card / 9.9cms x 7.9cms.	1990
97	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Navagraha (Nine planets) ganjifa	Workshop	108/9/round / card / 10.4cms. dia.	1990
98	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Navagraha (Nine planets) ganjifa	Workshop	108/9/round / card / 8.2cms. dia.	1986
99	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Musical instrument ganjifa	Workshop	120/10/round / card / 8.2cms. dia.	1988
100	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Rashi (Zodiac Signs) ganjifa	Workshop	144/12/round/ card / 8.2 cms. dia.	1988
101	Bangalore, Karnataka	Dashavatara	Sudha Venkatesh	120/10/round / card / 7.9cms. dia / Mysore style	1995
102	Mysore, Karnataka	Dashavatara	Raghupathi Bhatt	120/10/ round / card / 7.1cms. dia./ Mysore style	2002
103	Mysore, Karnataka	Dashavatara	Raghupati Bhatt	120/10/ round / special velvet back card / screen printed / 5.00cms. dia.	2000
104	Bangalore, Karnataka	Marriage cards	Sudha Venkatesh	36/4/rectangle/ card / 9.00cms. x 5.00cms./ Mysore style	1990
105	Bangalore, Karnataka	Navin Rama	Sudha Venkatesh	36/4/rectangle / card / 10.5cms. x 7.4cms./ Mysore style	1990
106	Bangalore, Karnataka	Krishnaraj Chad	Sudha Venkatesh	72/4/rectangle / card / 9.4cms. x 6.4cms./ Mysore style	1994
107	Bangalore, Karnataka	Krishnaraj Chad	Sudha Venkatesh	72/4/round/ card / 8.2cms. dia./ Mysore style	2000
108	Bangalore, Karnataka	Ashta Dikpala	Sudha Venkatesh	96/8/round / card / 8.0cms. dia./ Mysore style	1996
109	Bangalore, Karnataka	Navagraha (nine planets)	Sudha Venkatesh	108/9/round / card / 8.7cms. dia./ Mysore style	2002
110	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Hindu Astro-mythological cards with 22 major arcane consisting of planets and Zodiac gods/goddesses and 56 minor arcanas of Visnu, Brahma, Shiva and Indra suits.	Conceptualized by Gordhandas, the set was handpainted by artists from Sawantwadi in 1990	78 cards / rectangle / card / 11.00cms. x 8.2cms.	1990
111	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Hindu Astro-mythological cards	Sawantwadi	78/round/card/9.5cms. dia./ ivory colour background	1990
112	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Hindu Astro-mythological cards	Sawantwadi	78/ small/rectangle/ card / 8.2cms. x 6.00cms.	1990
113	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Hindu Astro-mythological cards	Sawantwadi	78/rectangle/card/ 8.2cms x 11.5 cms./ chocolate brown	1992
114	Pune, Maharashtra	Dashavatara cards, circa 1940	Printed in Chitrashala Printing Press, Poona- circa.1940	120/10/round/ card/ 2.75cms. dia.	1940
115	Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh	Dashavatara, facsimile ca. 18 CE. Printed by Vito Arientti, Italy		120/10/round/ card / 8.3cms. dia / printed	1980
116	Rajasthan	Moghul ganjifa -18 CE; printed by Fournier and Co., Spain in 2004 from the original set in the Museum's collection.		96/8/round/ card/ 6.1cms. dia	2004
117	Rajasthan/ Madhya Pradesh	Moghul ganjifa- of 19 CE, printed by Fournier and Co. Spain around 2004		96/8/round/ card / 7.5cms. dia	2004
118	Mysore/ USA	Ashta Dikapala - ganjifa of 96 cards -originally painted in Mysore, circa. 1996– printed in USA, private, in 2004		96/8/round/ card- 7.7 cms. dia.	2004
119	Puri, Orissa	Dashavatara	Not known	144-1 (Total 143 cards / One card missing-nine of Narasimha.) / 12 /rectangle/ Sandalwood / 7.6 cms. x 4.7 cms.	1996
120	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Navadurga (Nine forms of Goddess Durga) ganjifa	Banamali Mahapatra	108 / 9 /round /card / 10.1 cms. dia. / pradhans show nine different forms of Durgadevi.	2007
121	Chikiti, Orissa	Ath-Rangi Sara: rath-hathi	Appana Mahapatro	96-1 (Total 95 cards-One card missing) / 8 / round / patta / 7.8 cms. dia. / all the rajas and pradhans are the same except for the suit colours. A gambling game from Gajapati dist., Orissa.	1986
122	Sawantwadi, Maharashtra	Moghul ganjifa: - Changakanchan	Workshop	96 / 8 / round / card / 10.2 cms. dia.	2008
123	Raghurajpur, Orissa	Navagraha	Banamali Mahapatra	108/ 9/ round/ card/ 9.9cms dia.	2005
124	Bishnupur, W. Bengal	Krishna -Leela ganjifa	Mousumi Fouzdar	108 / 9/ round / patta / 9.6 cms. dia.	2007

ABOUT GANJIFA CARDS

Among the popular Pastimes of Ancient India, the game of Cards (Ganjifa) found as much favour with Kings, Courtiers and general masses as the Pachisi (Dice) and Chess. While the popularity of Chess continues unabated to this day, the Ganjifa Cards and their games have passed into oblivion. We do not know whether the card games were played for amusement or speculation, but the Indian Ganjifa Cards were and are extremely colourful and painted in such a wide variety that one tends to hold one’s breath.

Many theories have been put forward about the origin of playing cards and claims have been made by many a country as their birthplace. In the literature of playing cards, several European Countries and Egypt, India, China and Korea have been given the honour of having devised this ingenious instrument for the exercise of the mental prowess of deduction and combination. It is possible that Chinese Playing Cards using money as suit signs, spread westward, during the thirteenth century and were modified en route. The cards were brought to India by Moghul Emperors early in the sixteenth century. Once established, the cards spread to most regions of India either in their original form known as Moghul Ganjifa, or in its slightly later Hindu form known as Dashavatara Ganjifa.

In June, 1527, Babar, the first Moghul ruler, sent Playing Cards (Ganjifa) to his friend in Singh. This was probably the eight-suited pack of 96 Cards. By the 16th Century, several different types of Ganjifa games had already been developed in India. A neatly tabulated description of twelve-suited and eight-suited packs with all the details of cards and suit signs are provided by Abul Fazal, the Vazeer and biographer of King Akbar in his book Ain-e-Akbari.

King Akbar made some alternations in the cards and he is said to have invented a new game of 96 cards with eight suits of 12 cards each, which is now known as Moghul Ganjifa. The eight suits of Moghul Ganjifa packs are surprisingly constant from the beginning of the 16th Century to the present day.

The Hinduisation of Ganjifa themes must have contributed greatly to the spread and popularity of the games. DASHAVATARA Ganjifa with the Avataras as incarnates of Shri VISHNU was the most popular Card game in Rajasthan, Bengal, Nepal, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra.

The structure and the rules of the play of both the games- Moghul and Dashavatara Ganjifa, are essentially the same. The Orissan Pack has been extended to twelve suits by the addition of Shree Ganesh and Shree Karthikeya suits and to sixteen and twenty suits by the addition of further divinities.

Today, the Ganjifa Cards are being made in Sawantwadi, Maharashtra; in Nirmal, Andhra Pradesh; Bishnupur in West Bengal; and in Puri, Bhubaneswar, Raghurajpur, Dindosahi, Parlakhenmundi, Chikiti, Sonepur and such other places in Orissa. Many Traditional Artists have died in recent years, and although much has been done in the past few years for encouraging this Art, without proper understanding and encouragement to the present generation of Artists, Ganjifa Art and Games might fade away sooner than later. Illustrated talks, workshops, Exhibitions, Articles and other publications on Ganjifa can give some kind of understanding, general knowledge from various catalogues also would help and bring awareness among Indians on Ganjifa Cards and games.

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