Stories
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India
Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.
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Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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India: human bodies burning on a funeral pyre; one corpse in foreground. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 575394i
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India: a decorative carriage pulled by oxen decorated with ornate textiles and bells. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 575391i
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India: a man seated on an elephant by the banks of a river. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 575380i
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India: a leopard chained in a cart pulled by an ox, with four Indian men. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 575381i
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India: a street conjuror with his musicians, putting a man inside a net and a wicker basket. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 575384i
