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Ganjifa

Ganjifa, Ganjapa or Gânjaphâ, is a card game and type of playing cards that are most associated with Persia and India. After Ganjifa cards fell out of use in Iran before the twentieth century, India became the last country to produce them. The form prevalent in Odisha is Ganjapa.

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related to Sources · 208
Ganjifa → Abhinav Publications, Abram, Abu'l-Fazl, Account, Ahli, Ain, Akbari, Alors Hors Du Temps, Andrew, Annette Susannah, Arabia, Arabic, Arabien, Arnold, Atlanta, Atlantic Publishers, Autenboer, Babur, Barbin, Begam
related to Notable Ganjifa card collections and collectors · 71
Ganjifa → AD, Albert Museum, Allahabad Museum, Archived, Art, Arts, Beinecke Library, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, British Museum, Cambridge University Library, Centre, Dashavatar, Deutsches Spielkartenmuseum, Digital RepositoryJaganmohan Palace, Dr, Francis Douce, Ganjam, George Lewis, Germany, History Hunter
related to Variants · 68
Ganjifa → Ahli Shirazi, Ain-i-Akbari, Akbar, Akbar's Ganjifa, Amatya, Ashta Malla Ganjifa, Balaram/Krishna, Bishnupur, Brahma, Chad, Chandra, Chikiti, Dashavatara Ganjifa, Depending, Depicts Krishna, Dhwaja, Each, Eight Wrestlers, Ganesha, Ganjapa
related to Competition from Western style cards · 57
Ganjifa → As-Nas, Baloot, Belgian, Belgium, Belote, Biermans, Brepols, Bridge, Calcutta, Camoin, De La Rue, Euchre, Europe, European, For, Foreign Trade Monopoly Act, French, Improvements, In, In Iran
related to Arabic sources and surviving cards · 47
Ganjifa → AD, An, Andrew Leibs, Arab, Arabic, As, British, Calcutta, Chinese, Edmund, Egypt, Egyptian, Europe, For, Ganjafeh, He, Ibn Taghribirdi, In, Iran, Italian
related to Literature · 32
Ganjifa → Albert Museum, Bharat Kala Bhavan, Bodleian Library Record, Bombay, Certain Suit Signs, Chad, Chopra, Exhibition, Francis Douce, Ganjifa Folios, III/3, Illustrated Marathi Games, India, Indian Playing Cards, JCPS, Leyden, London, Museum, Mysore, Note
related to history · 28
Ganjifa → Agra, Babur, Baburnama, Bâbur, Dashavatara Ganjifa, Fatehpur Sikri, Hindus, In, India, Indian, Inner Asia, Its, Leyden, Modern, Mughal, Mughals, Patrakrida, Persian, Ramzan, Rudolf
related to Persian sources · 28
Ganjifa → According, Ahli Shirazi's, Around, As-Nas, By, Chinese, Despite, Gaykhatu, General Albert Houtum-Schindler, He, In, India, Iran, Mamluk, Mamluks, Michael Dummett, Mughals, Persia, Persian, Persians
related to Etymology · 22
Ganjifa → Arab, Arabian, Asia, Bombay, Carsten Niebuhr, Chinese, French, Gen, Houtum-Schindler, In, In Kuwait, India, Jean Louis Burckhardt, Mecca, Middle East, Mughal, Persia, Persian, Stewart Culin, The
related to Description · 8
Ganjifa → Chads, Different, Mamluk Kanjifa, Mughal, Mysore, The, Typically Ganjifa, With

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cards india playing suit suits game card king century games chinese museum played collection court two persian mamluk known french

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Ganjifais apart of the Wovensouls collection Archived 2016-03-27 at the Wayback Machine0.90text
precious stone-inlaid ivory or tortoise shellinstance offrom materials0.80text
woodinstance ofwould be made from materials0.80text
palm leafinstance ofwould be made from materials0.80text
stiffened cloth or pasteboardinstance ofwould be made from materials0.80text
Indiainstance ofSome historical decks have had more than 30 suits.Competition from Western style cardsIn countries0.80text
Persiainstance ofSome historical decks have had more than 30 suits.Competition from Western style cardsIn countries0.80text
the traditional hand-made Ganjifa cards lost market share to Western-style printed cardsinstance ofSome historical decks have had more than 30 suits.Competition from Western style cardsIn countries0.80text
which came to dominate in the 20th centuryinstance ofSome historical decks have had more than 30 suits.Competition from Western style cardsIn countries0.80text
Euchreinstance ofThe invention of games0.80text
Bridgeinstance ofThe invention of games0.80text
Pokerinstance ofThe invention of games0.80text

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