Glossary
Ganjifa
Also written · ganjapa
What is Ganjifa?
Ganjifa are circular playing cards, hand-painted on lacquered board, cloth or ivory, and used in India from the Mughal period onward. A pack runs to eight, ten or twelve suits of twelve cards each, two of them court cards, so a full set can exceed a hundred and forty. Suits are often given the ten avatars of Vishnu.
Objects catalogued under this term
No object in the published catalogue carries this term yet. The catalogue is being written object by object.