Ganjifa Playing Cards

Ganjifa is an extremely prevalent word and other than India it is regularly known in Nepal, Arab nations, Turkey and Iran. Ganjifa means diversions identified with playing cards and card games. Ganjifa today is assumed control by the printed playing cards. The definitive Ganjifas showed exciting questions and showered the society workmanship painted by the specialists. Craftsmen have saved the customary craftsmanship probable and additionally the primary Hindu religious imagery. Ganjifas are quite wonderfully stuffed in the sliding boxes which excessively are quite masterfully created. 

Mughal Ganjifa : History says Mughal and Hindu ganjifas were extremely regular and had gotten all the spotlight. The present session of Mughal Ganjifa was presented by Akbar. The Mughal ganjifa conveyed eight suited ganjifa pack and had 96 delightful cards in eight suits of 12 cards each. The twelve cards in each one suit involved two court or figure cards and 10 numeral or pip cards. 

Dashavatara Ganjifa : The Hindu Dashavatara (10 incarnations) were distinctive in their structure and development. In the first request the amount of suits and cards were more which made the amusement entangled . The figures and the suit signs were regular to the Hindu players. Each one pack of ganjifa conveyed 10 suits, which showed one of the incarnations of Vishnu. 

The methods, preparing, outlining of ganjifa cards shifted from client to client. Artists included in making Cards for the rich and well off needed to utilize costly materials. They used to art on lac wafers, tortoise shells, ivory, engraved metal discs, mother of pearl and were enlivened with valuable stones and metals. Common man had ganjifas to himself on cowhide, paper, stylographed palm leaves, fish scales and paper machie. Today the ganjifas are sold as a specialty object.