Photographing India/ Janah,Sunil

PREFACE ; 1. INDIA: PAST AND PRESENT / LAST DAYS OF BRITISH RULE / THE BENGAL FAMINE / BECOMING A PHOTOGRAPHER / INSPECTORATE OF SCIENTIFIC STORES / COMMUNAL RIOTS / PARTITION / INDEPENDENCE ; 2. JOINING THE CPI AS A REPORTER / PHOTOGRAPHER / PHOTOGRAPHING THE PEASANT RALLIES AND DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE CITIES / 'PHOTOK WALLA' / GANDHI AND NEHRU / PHOTOGRAPHING THE DIVERSE PEOPLES IN INDIA / PARTY HEADQUARTERS / SOUTH INDIAN FAMINES AND CALCUTTA RIOTS WITH MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE / ARREST AND DETENTION / END OF BRITISH RULE / P.C. JOSHI / LEFTIST GOVERNMENTS ; 3. FREELANCING FROM CALCUTTA / FIRST BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS DESIGNED BY SATYAJIT RAY / FIRST EXHIBITIONS / INDUSTRIAL ASSIGNMENTS / MARRIAGE / SCHOOL OF PRINTING TECHNOLOGY / PHOTOGRAPHING VILLAGE AND TTRIBAL PEOPLE / NUDES / CALCUTTA IN THE 1950S / OUR HOUSE, MY STUDIO, FRIENDS, AND VISITORS / CHITTAPRASAD, J.B.S. HALDANE / PHOTOGRAPHING DANCERS, YEHUDI MENUHIN, VERRIER ELWIN, LINDSAY EMERSON / TEMPLE SCULPTURES AND ANCIENT MONUMENTS ; 4. UN ASSIGNMENTS IN SRI LANKA, BURMA, MALAYSIA, THAILAND, GENEVA, AND PARIS / HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON / LIVING IN NEW DELHI / THE BOOK, DANCES OF THE GOLDEN HALL / DELHI EXHIBITION / INDIRA GANDHI / INVITATIONS TO RUSSIA AND THE SOCIALIST COUNTRIES OF EUROPE, AND EXHIBITIONS IN BERLIN, PRAGUE, SOFIA, AND BUCHAREST / MAKING PRINTS / ADVANCES IN CAMERAS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS DURING MY LIFETIME / THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION / THE PADMA SHRI AWARD / DEPRESSION / DETERIORATING HEALTH AND EYESIGHT ; 5. DEALINGS WITH GOVERNMENT AND PUBLISHING MISADVENTURES IN INDIA / MOVE TO LONDON / LIVING IN LONDON AND THE LONG DRIVE THROUGH WESTERN EUROPE / EXHIBITIONS IN LONDON, OXFORD, AND OTHER CITIES IN ENGLAND, AND AT THE FOTOFEST IN HOUSTON, USA / RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITIONS IN NEW DELHI, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY / EXHIBITIONS AT THE HAVANA BIENNALE IN CUBA, IN MERIDA IN MEXICO, AND IN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO / SELLING PRINTS / JYOTI BASU / MICHAEL HOFFMAN AND THE APERTURE EXHIBITION / ALKAZI ; 6. ON LOOKING BACK ; 7. POST-9/11 AMERICA-IN NEW YORK, 11 SEPTEMBER 2001 / REACTIONS TO PRESENT-DAY EVENTS / THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION / AFGHANISTAN / AL QAEDA / IRAQ / USA AND THE WORLD / OBAMA ELECTED PRESIDENT AND A NEW HOPE FOR AMERICA ; PHOTOGRAPHING INDIA-THE MAKING OF HISTORY / RURAL INDIA / THE TRIBAL PEOPLE / CITIES AND TOWNS / THE CULTURAL HERITAGE / INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS / PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS