The volume presents a rare collection of photographs taken by internationally acclaimed photographer Sunil Janah between the late 1930s and the late 1970s in India. A historically significant book, the photographs capture aspects of pre- and post-independence India—the freedom movement, the partition of the Indian subcontinent, famines, riots, peasant and social movements, and important political figures, artists, writers and other eminent personalities as ...
This book is a collection of photographs of the tribals of India, accompanied by descriptions of the author’s experiences among them. Beginning in the early forties, renowned photographer Sunil Janah travelled extensively, for thirty years, to remote and hitherto almost inaccessible tribal villages. For days he lived with these people and developed a closeness and friendship with them. This enabled him to capture with his camera these intimate images of their ...