Rajasthan photos by Tan Dan 51-136

Photos taken by Tan Dan between 1960 and 1981 in his native region of western Rajasthan

At the end there is a pdf file with phototext descriptions.

Ritual funeral of zebu bulls at Chelana

The Bavria foodhunting tribe living in the Rajasthan desert.

Bahi Bhat family pedigree recorder

Chelana women wearing traditional handwoven cloth

Entertainers

The way untouchables were offered water

Those who barbers did not serve

Leather and untouchability

An outcasted Bhambi

Wedding gifts among Bhambis

Shanshi cobblers that filled the gap after bhambi cobblers had stopped repairing shoes

People working with other leather items

Removing dead animals at Chelana

Basket makers of the Bhangi caste

 

Bhangis collecting money after Id function

 

The skilled Bhangi craftsmen of Butati village

The sweeper boy at Jodhpur

 

Baya and her friends at Chelana

 

A photo text file. Here are more information about the photos above:

phtext-51-136-fr-130-file-n-gall-for-file.pdf

A photo collage of photos 51 to 136

collage-photos-51-136-fr-130-file-nytt.pdf

This is a kind of photo collage of the photos above. For a quick comprehensive view and to stimulate curiosity. The order is at random, but the result is quite nice, I think. I have just copied the photos in the folder on a Word document and made a pdf file out of it. Very easy, but based on a technique beyond my control, hence the random order of the photos.