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    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...
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    developed very differently from the Ganjifa found in the rest of India. Odisha has by far the largest community of Ganjifa players and manufacturers. The Odia...
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  • bottom four of the trumps equal in rank. It is used to play Tarocchini. The Ganjifa packs are associated with India and Persia. They are typically hand painted...
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  • Sawantwadi (section Ganjifa)
    Along with Dashavtar Ganjifa, Sawantwadi artists and artisans also make Dashavtar Darchitri Ganjifa, Chang Kanchan (Mughal Ganjifa), Navagraha (Nine Planets)...
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    that the lower ones beat the higher ones. In the Indo-Persian game of Ganjifa, half the suits were also inverted, including a suit of coins. This was...
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    without this rank, the Mamluk suits would structurally be the same as a Ganjifa suit. In fact, the word "Kanjifah" appears in Arabic on the king of swords...
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    Mysore is the location of the International Ganjifa Research Centre, which researches the ancient card game Ganjifa and the art associated with it. The Chamarajendra...
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    all facing towards the flagpost above. Navagunjara is also depicted in Ganjifa playing cards as the King card and Arjuna as the minister card, in parts...
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    and relatively small, for example 4 cm × 6 cm (1.6 in × 2.4 in). Like Ganjifa cards, they are generally hand-painted, although some later examples use...
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    coins was inverted so the 1 of Coins was the highest in its suit. In the Ganjifa games of Persia, India, and Arabia, only the pip cards of half the suits...
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    Dufferin Clock Tower Tourist attractions Art and culture Mysore painting Ganjifa Mysore silk Mysore Dasara Mysore yoga Civic administration Mysore City...
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    suits. Inverted ranking is a feature found in Madiao, Khanhoo, Tổ tôm, Ganjifa, Tarot, Ombre, and Maw and is believed to have originated in the very earliest...
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    the finest exponents of Ganjifa Art, Ganjifa Raghupathi Bhatta is a resident of Mysore and has set up an International Ganjifa Research Centre at Mysore...
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    59, 516 (logo) Maddalam of Pallakad Handicraft Kerala 47 60, 511 (logo) Ganjifa cards of Mysore Handicraft Karnataka 48 61, 512 (logo) Navalgund carpet...
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    of Besançon Minchiate, extinct deck with mix Italian/Portuguese suits Ganjifa Dummett, Michael (1980). The Game of Tarot. London: Duckworth. "Stamps...
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    Standard 52-card deck Other packs and decks As-Nas Chinese Four-colour pack Ganjifa ganjapa Karuta hanafuda Hyakunin Isshu kabufuda uta-garuta Kvitlech Polish...
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  • Adams (2001), A Dictionary of Asian Mythology Leyden, Rudolf von (1982), Ganjifa: The Playing Cards of India, The Victoria and Albert Museum, ISBN 978-09052-0-9173...
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    starts with. 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...
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    Arms and Armor, Metropolitan Museum of Art Leyden, Rudolf von (1982), Ganjifa: The Playing Cards of India, The Victoria and Albert Museum, ISBN 978-09052-0-9173...
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    Dufferin Clock Tower Tourist attractions Art and culture Mysore painting Ganjifa Mysore silk Mysore Dasara Mysore yoga Civic administration Mysore City...
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    Manohar Publications. ISBN 9780836417548. Leyden, Rudolf von (1982). Ganjifa: The Playing Cards of India. The Victoria and Albert Museum. p. 22. ISBN 978-0905209173...
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    was an expert player of board games and is credited to have revived the Ganjifa game. He was also a collector and an inventor of board games. Krishnaraja...
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  • Standard 52-card deck Other packs and decks As-Nas Chinese Four-colour pack Ganjifa ganjapa Karuta hanafuda Hyakunin Isshu kabufuda uta-garuta Kvitlech Polish...
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  • became more popular. In India, the gambling game of Naqsha overtook the Ganjifa trick-taking game and many decks were made with only half of the traditional...
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  • China and Korea also have traditional packs of playing cards. The Indian ganjifa cards are usually round, and have 8, 10 12 cards each. Chinese playing...
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    fighter. Tipu also patronised art forms such as Ganjifa cards, effectively saving this art form. Ganjifa card of Mysore have the GI Tag today. Tipu Sultan...
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  • domestic domain is the goat and the tiger and ganjifa. These were the forerunners of the card games of today. Ganjifa used to be circular painted stack of card...
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    Tarot, Triomphe, Ombre, Maw, Unsun Karuta, Madiao, Khanhoo, Tổ tôm, and Ganjifa. Look up trionfi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. History of Trionfi...
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    the higher. This feature also appeared in other early card games like Ganjifa, Tarot, Ombre, and Maw. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the suit of...
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