Schoolroom Posters from India

I’m back in Helsinki for a couple of weeks, staying with some friends. They have traveled a bit in India, and they have this wonderful poster on their wall.

Ideal boy 3

I don’t have my scanner with me, of course, but I was able to find a copy of the poster online. It’s featured in a delightful book about traditional Indian school posters (that happens to be on the nightstand here) entitled An Ideal Boy: Charts from India. Highly recommended.

There is a corresponding chart of Bad Habits as well:

Bad habits

Here are some more posters found online.

Body parts

Bathroom articles

Moral stories

Women at work

More ephemera

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~ by lolarusa on June 2, 2007.

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7 Responses to “Schoolroom Posters from India”

  1. Great stuff!!!

    balkan said this on June 7, 2007 at 10:41 pm

  2. Thanks for posting these they’re great !!!!

    Michèle said this on June 16, 2007 at 10:45 am

  3. Fantastic. Thanks for posting.

    sitaji said this on November 16, 2007 at 4:40 am

  4. I saw some reproductions of these for sale at Pier 1 Imports

    galeforcewind said this on February 8, 2008 at 8:15 pm

  5. Hi thanks for posting the Ideal Boy and Bad Habits posters. Glad you like them. If you would like to see the whole collection, please visit our website http://www.kananda.com.

    Julie said this on April 17, 2008 at 3:09 pm

  6. this is so wierd! i was reading that book last night and randomly came across it here! i was scanning a few pictures, including the ones which u have up! so funny!

    in india, if you look at the local language text books, you find those kind of illustrations. so bright, colourful and hilarious!

    aliie said this on July 1, 2008 at 10:01 pm

  7. good 1……………………

    mangal said this on May 28, 2009 at 7:26 am

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