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‘Sundaris sharing a rose’ and ‘Golap Sundari’ are exemplary of erotic art popular in 19th century Calcutta, India. 


Usually sold as pin up prints, they depict women- particularly the new class of widows - who were forced into sex work. 

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When sati (the act of a widow sacrificing herself by sitting on her husband’s funeral pyre) was abolished, many women were abandoned by their families. Forced to fend for themselves, they turned to prostitution and other arts of seduction as their only means of survival.