Funerals and costumes, from Racinet 1876

Source: ebay, Nov. 2005

"Legend:
[upper half]:  Indian Funeral

[bottom half - from left]:
1,2. Husband and wife, grain merchants, caste Lambadi; 3,4. A mendicant friar of the Vishnu sect saluted by a woman; 5. Salt merchant; 6,8. A mendicant friar and his wife if the Vishnu sect; 7. A mendicant friar of the Shiva sect."