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- Pictures
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India: a man seated on an elephant by the banks of a river. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 575380i- Pictures
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India: the site on the Ganges (showing the temple Satichaura Ghat ?) where British citizens were murdered during the Indian Rebellion. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
Beato, Felice, 1832-1909.Date: 1858Reference: 569611i- Pictures
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India : a gathering of Hindu ascetics (sadhus) at a religious festival: in the background, the Union flag flies over a British military fortification. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
Date: 1880Reference: 567001i- Pictures
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India: A(?)ituni people standing in a row, with palm trees and a grass-roofed house behind them. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
Date: 1900-1920Reference: 564958i