Kamat's Potpourri: Million Simultaneous Avatars

The People of India

First Online: February 10,2001
Last Updated: September 07,2008

Introduction

Any attempt to classify the vast population of India (more than one billion now) is bound to run into problems due the cultural complexities and the interrelated seminaries of the castes and communities. My attempt in the year of 1998, one based on caste was a miserable failure and I have since withdrawn it. So this page at Kamat's Potpourri will henceforth just provide an index to the diversity of Indian people without classifying them.

-Vikas Kamat

Never Been Photographed Fascinating photographic exhibition of common Indians who have never been in front of a camera.	Natives of The Timeless Theater Articles and pictures on the tribal societies of India.
The Indian Women Section on the status and role of women in India. Includes numerous photographs, history, biographies and references	The Children of India Portraits of Indian children; includes a subsection on the street children of India.
Famous Indians Biographies and portraits of accomplished Indians.	The Christians of Karavali Kannada language article on the Konkani speaking Christians of Indian West Coast
Gypsies of India Section on the nomadic tribes of India, known as Lambanis.	Given to Goddess Article and a number of pictures on the mysterious cult in Southern India called the devotees of Yellamma or Devadasis (temple women)
The African Connection Feature on the Indo-African nexus over the centuries. Includes pictures of the Siddi community.	The Iyengar Brahmins

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