The People of India

First Online: February 10, 2001
Last Updated: August 20, 2024

 

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 My attempt in the year of 1998, one based on caste was a miserable failure and I have since withdrawn it.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

 

People of India

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

 

• The Helava Community
• African Merchant from a Dakhani Painting
• Boy riding water buffalo to work, West Bengal
• A Goan Woman in Marketplace
• Halakki Farmers of Indian West Coast
• An Indian Villager
• A Kadu-Kuruba Tribal
• Lambanis - The Gypsies
• Light heart cures poverty
• Man belonging to Grameen Gouli (rural milkman) Community
• Members of a Hindu Family
• Mountain Man, Himachal Pradesh
• The Parsis of India
• Peace Corps Volunteer and the Indian Cowherd
• Portrait of a Beggar
• Portrait of a Goulini
• Portrait of a Daldi Fisherwoman
• Rag Pickers of India
• The Sadhus of India
• Siddis -- Indians of African Origin
• Son of Soil - Gramokkal Farmer from Hebbar Hittal, Bhatkal
• Student of Islam at a Madrassah
• A Sundi Tribal
• The Toda Tribe of Nilgiri
• Traditional Konkani Couple
• Tribal Woman with Betel Stained Mouth
• Widow Belonging to Gouli Community
• Woman Belonging to the Mavashia Community
• Woman Belonging to Namadhari Community
• A woman of the Grameen Gouli community

• The African Connection --Indians of African Origin
• The Anglo-Indian Community
• The Badaga Community
• The Brahmins
• The Courtesans of India
• Famous and Accomplished Indians
• Fishermen Communities of India
• The Gypsies of India
• Halakki Farming Community
• The Iyengar Brahmins
• The Kadukuruba Community
• The Kodava Community
• The Kudubi Community
• Muslims of India
• Never Been Photographed
• Peer Portraits
• Indology and Study of India
• Rag Pickers of India
• The Rajputs
• Real Jobs - Photographic Exhibition of Hard Labor
• The Santal Tribe
• Senior Citizens of India
• The Temple Women of India
• Tibetans in India
• The Toda Community of India
• The Veerashaiva or Lingayat Community
• Cross Dressing in India
• The Zoroastrian Community

See Also:

• A Billion Faces Now -- Diverse faces of India in a photographic exhibition
• Brahmin Communities -- A comprehensive list of Brahmin communities of India documented for anthropological research purposes.