Subcontinent sub-cultures

Gazing serenely out at museum visitors for more than 100 years, these painted plaster heads show the diversity of cultures on the subcontinent. On display long before the partition of British India in 1947, there are races exhibited here who now live primarily in either Pakistan or Bangladesh.
The Sindhi (named after the Indus River) gentleman on the right is a case in point. Descended from early Indo-European invaders whose ancient conquests pushed east of the Indus, Muslim Sindhis are today found mostly in Pakistan.
These near life size busts fill just one case of the many containing interpretive plaster models throughout the Bhau Daji Lad Museum.