Playing Cards from India

Air India
‘Air India’ playing cards, made in India.

Bharata Major Arcana Tarot
Bharata Major Arcana Tarot inspired by Indian art forms by Ishan Trivedi & Sunish Chabba, 2018.

Bharata Playing Cards
Bharata Playing Cards - Series 2, based on Indian folk art, published by Sunish Chabba, 2018.

Chitrashala Press
Chitrashala Press produced some charming children's pictorial alphabet cards for early learning purposes in the 1940s.

Dasavatara Ganjifa from India
Chromo-lithograph Ganjifa cards by the Chitrasala Press, around 1950. Ten suits of twelve cards, each suit is based on one of the ten incarnations of Vishnu.

Dilkhus playing cards for India
Van Genechten was one of the most competent cardmakers in Turnhout and they produced almost every kind of foreign pack for clients all around the world.

Divine Art
Divine Art Playing Cards by Sunish Chabba & Guru Playing Card Company, 2016.

EduStack — Playing Cards for Math & Astronomy
EduStack is a team from India passionate about gaming and education that has created two sets of custom playing cards about Maths and Astronomy

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Far East
Far East playing cards with designs by Isabel Ibáñez de Sendadiano, c.1980.

Ganjifa™
A colourful pack of round cards with Ganjifa designs by Asha Industries, Mumbai, India, 2002.

Guru Ganjifa
Sunish Chabba is working on an initiative to revive traditional Ganjifa, the card game most popular 17th Century India.

Handmade Ganjifa Birds Playing Cards
This set of Ganjifa cards is a beautiful example of traditional cards from India.

Indian Ganjifa Playing Cards
‘Ganjifa’ playing cards made in Sheopor in the North of Madhya Pradesh province in Central India. The Ganjifa game probably developed from 13th century games played by Mamluk immigrants from China.

Kings of India playing cards
Kings of India playing cards depicting the four greatest dynasties of India.

Lingo Pix
Lingo Pix Tourist Picture Cards by TM Cards, India, 2006

Math Stack
“Math Stack” playing cards designed by Diana Stanciulescu, illustrating and explaining 36 important mathematical constants, published by EduStack in India

ORIENT The Queen of Cards
A unique Art creation of Subho Tagore

Parksons
Parker & Sons was launched in 1955 by Mr. Parker