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India: The Definitive Images
Mahatma Gandhi leading his followers on a march to the sea at Dandi to defy British salt laws. Jawaharlal Nehru being sworn in as independent India's first prime minister. The lifeless face of a young victim of the Bhopal gas tragedy. Boys diving into the Ganga at Varanasi.
India
The Definitive Images 1858 to the Present
Introduction by Khushwant Singh
Edited by Prashant Panjiar
Penguin India
2004
Pages: 160
Price: Rs 1,250
ISBN: 0670049654
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Mahatma Gandhi leading his followers on a march to the sea at Dandi to defy British salt laws. Jawaharlal Nehru being sworn in as independent India's first prime minister. The lifeless face of a young victim of the Bhopal gas tragedy. Boys diving into the Ganga at Varanasi. These are only some of the memorable images featured in this book that is both a photographic history of India since 1858 and a cultural portrait of the country.
India: The Definitive Images contains stunning black-and-white and colour pictures by photographers of great repute - among them, Raghubir Singh, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White, Raghu Rai and Steve McCurry - some of whom have captured the beauty, others the moment. Thus, along with timeless images of everyday life - women caught in a monsoon shower; crowds in the busy lanes - there are photographs of epoch-making events and personalities.
Compiled and edited by one of India's best-known photojournalists, and with an introduction by the country's most widely read columnist and author, India: The Definitive Images is an unprecedented record of the making of modern India and of what it is today, in all its beauty, ugliness and ordinariness.
