Notes on the Geography of India Themes: JuxtapositionsThese pictures catch some tiny degree of the collision between the traditional and the modern in India. Make default image size larger ![]() Old and new in central Chennai (Madras). ![]() The expansion of Indian cities has been dramatic, not only in its scale but in its newly organized geometry, in this case at Hyderabad. ![]() New technology meets old custom: a wedding procession is lit by a portable generator that powers a music system, too. Etawah, between Agra and Kanpur. ![]() The Chennai (Madras) Bookfair, with scores of participating publishers. ![]() Signfest at Mathura, near Agra. ![]() And always the ultimate contrast, between rich and poor. Middle-class housing in the background, with a pup tent in the foreground belonging to a family of semi-nomadic Banjara, typically engaged in hard labor. ![]() Mother and daughter at home in the streets close to Osmania University in Hyderabad. |
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