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A man sleeping on his orthopaedic leg 215 gandhiji01 02 03 building's water supply protected from the searing heat by an umbrella 200 the square paper kites India children duel with from the city rooftops 08 04 05 modern tailors 06 bike spiffied-up with old CDs 07 cartwallah at the railway station 14  Elephanta caves on an island in Bombay's bay 36 Chor bazaar 188 Chor bazaar Bombay 189 Chor bazaar Bombay 190 191  these are hung everywhere from shop fronts to the grilles of taxis, they are sold as lucky charms by old women in the mornings 192 seeking shade on Bombay's Cowpatti beach 193 223 219 This family are breaking the re-bar from the sidewalk which has been torn up for sewage works, in order to sell it by weight 222 220 221 No spiting  

Children

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Sleepers

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Bollywood

09 Bollywood Bollywood  Bollywood Bollywood, a young French girl who had been travelling India alone for six months. At least as beautiful as the film's female lead. Bollywood Bollywood, Khan 

Goa

21 In Old Goa the Portuguese churces go back as far as the sixteenth century 183 In Old Goa the Portuguese churces go back as far as the sixteenth century 184 In Old Goa the Portuguese churces go back as far as the sixteenth century 185 girls playing ball in front of the convent school in Goa 186 making stone mortar & pestles under the rising Banyan trees 187 188 Suraj (the sun) over a door of a home in Christian Goa 189 190  191 192 193 The whole family, Shiva the most powerful of gods & his wife Parvati with their son, Ganesh, between them. They ride Shiva's bull. 218 beautiful old Banyan trees 194 in the ruins of an ancient Portuguese church this strange lapidary design on a tomb in the floor among others with ordinary coats of arms. It reminds me of Hieronomous Bosch's work 195 189

Rajasthan

10 11 12 13 15 hand-carved stone tracery to hide the women of the court from the world 16 17 18 19 20 Barber 21 Barber 22 the incredible old fort of Chittorgarh that is so vast it holds 135 temples 23 24 25 26 27 27 34 28 Chittorgarh 29 Chittorgarh 30 Chittorgarh 31 Bikaner 33 32 Indian eagle 35 among the milling tourists at Chittorgarh was this putrefying corpse of a dog 37 38 Brahmin priest 3940 56 57 looking out toward the desert from Jaiselmer's rooftops 58 These stones are cut out of sandstone & line the ramparts to be pushed off at an enemy that might swarm up the fortifications. These wedged accidentally during the recent earthquake 59 Jaiselmer, the golden city 60  Jaiselmer, the golden city 61 Jaiselmer, the golden city 62 Old woman Jaiselmer, at twilight 63 Jodhpur 64 Jodhpur Palace 65 66 The mausoleums of the Rajas in Jaipur. The present Raja's is under construction. 67 68 69 market at Jodhpur 70 77  78 The palace at Jodhpur 79 The palace at Jodhpur 80 The palace at Jodhpur 81  82 84 85 86 Pushkar 87 The empty lake at Pushkar 88 91Pushkar temple 89 traditional Rajasthani decorative painting- room at the hotel 90 92 93 hand carved stone tracery 94 95 hand carved stone tracery 96 hand carved stone tracery 97 98  99 100 101 102 103 104 105  106 107 108 109 110  111 112 113 114 the swastika put to its original 3000 year old purpose: good luck. 116 117  119 120 121 123 Udaipur, the blue city 124 Udaipur, the blue city 125 Udaipur, the blue city 126  Udaipur, the blue city 127 128 129 130  131 Udaipur's marble palace on the lake 132 Udaipur, the blue city 133 134 135  136 137 138 139  140 141 142 143 144 145  146 water pots 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162163 164 165 166 167 The steps up to Udaipur's Jagdish temple 168 a wedding procession, the bride & her sisters 169 wedding procession, the groom 170  171 wild parrots 172 173 174 56 

Temples

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Himachal Pradesh

175 Beas river 176177 178 179 180  181 182 183 184 The dentist 185  186 Beas river 187 shop in Himachal Pradesh's capital, Shimla 194 195  196 197 198 Marikaner 199 201  202 making moonshine in the mountains 203 204 205 weighing hash 206  in Shimla the people keep their plants safe from the monkeys with wire cages 207 shrine in the midst of an old pine forest 208 shrine in the midst of an old pine 210 209 

Monkeys & other animals

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