NY98 Section 5.2: Land and People - Cities and Villages
Panel 14: Kerala - Malabar Coast
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Left & Right: NY52-54 & NY52-55 Two sisters, found on a beach along the Malabar coast, Kerala, 1945. Many women in this warm, humid region did not wear upper garments at the time. These two made their living by searching for seashells and selling them to a lime kiln, earning the equivalent of only a few cents every day.
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Left: NY52-56 Coconut coir workers, Kerala, 1940's.
Right: NY52-57 Workers taking a midday break, Kanankayal farm, Malabar coast, Kerala, 1945.
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Left: NY52-58 Workers threshing rice with their feet, Kanankayal farm, Malabar coast, Kerala, 1945.
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Right NY52-59 Young woman in Malapparam village, on the Malabar coast, Kerala, southern India, 1945.
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Images - Copyright Sunil Janah 1940-1970
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NY98 Section 5.2: Land and People - Cities and Villages
Panel 15: Benares (Uttar Pradesh), Mumbai/Bombay (Maharashtra),
Delhi, Punjab, Malabar (Kerala)
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Left: NY52-60
A street in the holy city of Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh, northern India, 1950's ??.
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Right: NY52-61
?? Women in workers' tenements, Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, western India, 1940's ??.
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Middle Row:
Left: NY52-62 Cloth-seller doing accounts in a fabric shop, Jaipur, Rajasthan, Northern India, 1950's ??.
Center: NY52-63 Sikh village women chatting with neighbours, Punjab, 1940's. They are relaxing after the morning chores in a back alley by the rear entrance to their house.
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Left: NY52-64
?? Rajasthani woman ??, 1950's ??
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Left: NY52-65
?? Rajasthani woman construction worker, Delhi, North India ??, 1950's ??
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Left: NY52-66
?? Moplah Arab woman, Malabar Coast, Kerala, 1940's ??
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Images - Copyright Sunil Janah 1940-1970
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NY98 Section 5.2C: Land and People - Cities and Villages
Panel 16: Bihar (Ho), Gujerat, Eastern Himalaya, Bengal, Rajasthan (Gypsy)
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Left: NY52-67 Children of the Ho people, playing near a mural by a Ho painter, Jamshedpur, Bihar, East-Central India, 1950's ??.
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Right: NY52-68 ??Fisherwomen, Kathiawar, Arabian Sea coast, Western India, 1940's ??.
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| Left: NY52-69 ?? Women Tea Plantation workers, Himalayan foothills, North Bengal, 1950's. ?? |
Right: NY52-70 ?? Bengali Muslim dock worker, West Bengal, 1950's . ?? |
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| Left: NY52-71 ?? Gypsy family on the move, Rajasthan, Western India, 1950's. ?? |
Right: Text for the "Mainstream Millions (Cities & Villages)" subsection of the "Land and People" section of the NY'98 exhibition:
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Images - Copyright Sunil Janah 1940-1970
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NY98 Section 5.2: Land and People - Cities and Villages
Panel 17: Northeast India, Kerala (folk dance), Bihar, East Central India??
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| Left: NY52-72 Woman sifting rice to remove rice husks, Assam ??, Northeast India, 19??. |
Right: NY52-73 Woman ?? ??, harvest, ??, Northeast India, 19??. |
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Left: NY52-74 ?? Musician with dancers performing the vellakoli style of dance, Kerala, southern India, 19??.
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Right upper: NY52-75 ??Muslim and Hindu village elders relaxing, after the day's work, with a drum and a hookah, Bihar, eastern India, 19?? |
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Right lower: NY52-76 ?? ?? women and children washing in a stream, ??, east central India, 19?? |
Images - Copyright Sunil Janah 1940-1970
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