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Jagadalpur Bazaar
Kamat visits a weekly tribal marketplace in central India and notes that exploitation of the poor is one definite sign of progress.

Monochrome Marvels
Till Kamat presented his scholarly analysis of this rapidly vanishing art form, nobody recognized Kavi art as an art form. Nothing has been done since then.

The Beauty of Yana
Traverse the emerald route and discover the beauty of the west coast of Karnataka. Yana is sandwiched between the Arabian sea on the West and the mighty Sahyadris to the East.

Old-time furniture
Pictures of ancient beds found in Kannada literature and sculptures

Cross Dressing in Indian Theater
Photographic exhibition of men dressed as women (and a few other way around)

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House of Pictures
Photographs and Paintings


Woman Getting a Lover's Portrait Painted
Moghul School of Painting		 Moghul Paintings
Indian Landscape Painting
Landscape by Suren De, 1968
From Collection of Government Museum, Goa

The Wife of a Scholar
A woman helping her scholar husband with texts. It is uncommon to find illustrations of women engaged in higher study in ancient India.		 Education in Ancient India
Medicinal Plants of India
Guggulu Tree -- Comniphora wighitii
Detail from an Indian Postal Stamp

The Brahmi Plant -- Bacopa monnieri
Detail from an Indian Postal Stamp		 Medicianal Plants of India
A Konkani Pontiff (Swamiji)
Indirakant Tirth Shripad Vader (1886-1942)
Detail from a painting in Parashuram temple, Gokarn

Poet Narmad (1833-1941)
Portrait in India ink by V.N. O'key		 Gujarati Poet Narmad
Raja Bhamashah
Raja Bhamashah (1542-1598 apprx.)
Bhamashah was Maharana Pratap's childhood friend and adviser. As a courageous and a skillful General, Bhamashah played crucial roles in the numerous military exercises of Mewar against the mighty Moghul army.

Buddhist Education System
At the Buddhist Monastery, Mundgod, 1983		 A Tibetan Buddhist School
50 Years of Kamat`s Photography
The S.S.C Class of 1952
The 1952 graduating class of New English School, Honavar

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