![](/common/left.gif) Lambanis, the Gypsies of India
| ![Gypsy Women](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/1050.jpg) |
![Veena Artist](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/1078.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Veena maestro Doraiswamy Iyengar
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![](/common/left.gif) Lambani Woman on way to Marketplace
| ![Gypsy Woman](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/9.jpg) |
![Toda Elder of Nilgiri Mountains](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/26.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Toda Village Elder, Ooty
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![](/common/left.gif) A Man belonging to Native Maratha (kad-maratha) Community
| ![Indigenous People of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/45.jpg) |
![Halakki Community](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/53.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Halakki Gowda Farmer Halakki Man making Turayi ( a decorative Head gear) for Harvest Festival |
![](/common/left.gif) A Village Woman
| ![On the Streets of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/57.jpg) |
![Halakki Tribals](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/58.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Grandma Gowdati (Halakki Lady) caring for a Child
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![](/common/left.gif) Toda Woman Engaged in Embroidery
| ![Tribal Picture Gallery](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/67.jpg) |
![Dome of a Shiva temple](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/75.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) A Lingayat Temple
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![](/common/left.gif) A Muslim Mother and Her Child Mother and child belonging to the Navayat community. They are of Persian descent and live primarily on the Southwestern coast. | ![Navayati Woman and Child](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/17.jpg) |
![The Kodavas](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/vk21.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Huttari Dancer from Coorg
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![](/common/left.gif) A drummer of the Santhal tribe, West Bengal
| ![Santali Drummer](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2322.jpg) |
![Gypsy Woman and her Jewelry](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2022.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) A decked-up Lambani woman
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![](/common/left.gif) Basaveshwara, the Revolutionary Saint Portrait from a calendar painting | ![Sage Basavanna](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3314.jpg) |
![Kasooti](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3146.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) A Lambani lady embroidering a piece of yellow cloth
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![](/common/left.gif) A Banjara (Gypsy) woman, lost in the intricate world of Kasooti (needle craft)
| ![The Lambani Community](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3147.jpg) |
![Lambani Community](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3148.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Very Colorful Attire of the Lambanis
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![](/common/left.gif) Fish Market Snapshots
| ![Fishermen of Uttara Kannada](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/uk21.jpg) |
![Veerashaiva Temples](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/uk31.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Veerashaiva (Lingayat) temples of Uluvi
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![](/common/left.gif) Engraved Water Buffalo of the Todas Rock art from Tamilnadu | ![The Toda Community](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3052.jpg) |
![Todas of Nilgiri](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3053.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Image of the Moon is Very Sacred to the Todas
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![](/common/left.gif) Man belonging to Grameen Gouli (rural milkman) Community The attire of his tribe has not changed in centuries | ![People of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3054.jpg) |
![Tibetans in India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3182.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) A Student of Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan settlement, Mundgod |
![](/common/left.gif) Tibetans in Traditional Costumes
| ![At a Tibetan Refugee Camp](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3184.jpg) |
![People of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3358.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Black, Indian, and Hindu! Notice the Mangalasutra and the Holy Dot |
![](/common/left.gif) Boy riding water buffalo to work, West Bengal
| ![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3109.jpg) |
![Rajaput Heritage](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3113.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Rajput Couple Riding a Camel
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![](/common/left.gif) The monkhood of a Brahmin boy
| ![Upanayanam of a Vatu](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2294.jpg) |
![Todas of Nilgiri](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2315.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Toda man in traditional shawl Ooty, Nilgiri mountains, Tamil Nadu |
![](/common/left.gif) Widow of a Mahut (Elephant Trainer) A housewife of the Jenu-Kuruba (honey-bee farmers) community, Heggededevana Kote | ![Jenu-Kuruba Woman](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3418.jpg) |
![Muslims in India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/uk11.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Navayats: Konkani speaking Muslims Photo Plate showing mosques and people of Bhatkal town |
![](/common/left.gif) A patient of Leprosy takes to begging as his means of living
| ![Interviews with Poverty](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3932.jpg) |
![Halakki Tribal Woman](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2103.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Light heart cures poverty
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![](/common/left.gif) A push cart is his mode of transportation.
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![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4199.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) "The Camera Blitz is Blinding Me Uncle!"
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![](/common/left.gif) "Will my picture be shown in theaters?"
| ![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4370.jpg) |
![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4408.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) "Do you think I am Photogenic?"
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![](/common/left.gif) Man Dressed As a Woman Poses Backstage for a Photo
| ![Cross Dressing in Indian Theater](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4459.jpg) |
![Cross Dressing in Indian Theater](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4460.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) "I asked the director not to place me in a feminine role!!!"
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![](/common/left.gif) Man Dressed as the Mythological Character of Shurpanakhi
| ![Cross Dressing in Indian Theater](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4463.jpg) |
![Cross Dressing in Indian Theater](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4464.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) "Ghosts are Male or Female?"
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![](/common/left.gif) Portrait of S.N. Krishna Jois Krishna Jois is a great Kannada scholar, and edited such works as Supashastra. | ![Scholars and Learned Men](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4524.jpg) |
![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4548.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Man Dressed as a Woman for Krishna -Parijata Play
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![](/common/left.gif) A Man Elaborately Dresses as a Woman for a Play
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![Indian Muslims](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4555.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Portrait of a Muslim Woman Portrait of a Muslim woman with a huge nose ring |
![](/common/left.gif) She is very rich in beads. Leader of Tarle Dance of Halakki Community. The Dance is offered to invoke the rain God | ![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4557.jpg) |
![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3947.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) She loads the garbage in a bamboo basket
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![](/common/left.gif) Dr. R. K. Narayan. Well-known English writer
| ![Famous Indians](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3733.jpg) |
![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3734.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) General Carriappa
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![](/common/left.gif) Dr. Raja Ramanna. An atomic energy expert
| ![Famous Indians](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3737.jpg) |
![Pictures of Halakki Tribe](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/uk08.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Pictures of Halakki Community
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![](/common/left.gif) Fishermen Community of Uttara Kannada
| ![Fishermen Communities](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/uk15.jpg) |
![Poorest Among the Poor](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4562.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) "If my suffering is Lord`s wish, I accept it"
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![](/common/left.gif) Portrait of a Beggar
| ![Poorest Among the Poor](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4567.jpg) |
![Poorest Among the Poor](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4572.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) The Face of Poverty
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![](/common/left.gif) Portrait of a Homeless Man, Bangalore
| ![Poorest Among the Poor](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4573.jpg) |
![Kudubis of Karnataka](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4582.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Never Been Photographed Picture of a woman belonging to the Kudubi community |
![](/common/left.gif) Laborer Siblings on way to Forest
| ![People of Forest](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4583.jpg) |
![Kudubis of Karnataka](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4584.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Kunubi Dancer Picture of a Kudubi folk dancer, Ravindra Kala Kshetra, Bangalore |
![](/common/left.gif) Kudubi Folk Dancer Notice the drub Gumate with its braod and narrow ends | ![Kudubis of Karnataka](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4587.jpg) |
![Kudubis of Karnataka](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4590.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) The Gumatepak Dance
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![](/common/left.gif) Never Been to a Dentist!
| ![The Women of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4619.jpg) |
![The Yellamma (Devadasi) Cult](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4695.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) A Devadasi (Jogathi) carrying a copper vessel on her head
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![](/common/left.gif) Given to God Portrait of a Devadasi (temple woman) | ![Cowrie (Kavade) Decorations of a Devotee](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4692.jpg) |
![Goddess Renuka`s Head](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4676.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Metal idol of Goddess Yellamma's Head
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![](/common/left.gif) A Young 'Jogavva' on her way to seek alms
| ![The Yellamma (Devadasi) Cult](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4682.jpg) |
![Followers of the Yellamma (Devadasi) Cult](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4688.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) A Jogappa and four Jogathis (devotees of Yellamma) performing to please their deity
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![](/common/left.gif) Dedicated to Goddess -- Dedicated to Men Portrait of a Devadasi (Temple Woman) | ![Dedicated to Goddess -- Dedicated to Men](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4686.jpg) |
![Subhas Chandra Bose](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2494.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in INA Uniform
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![](/common/left.gif) Now you know why they are called `Sweat Shops`
| ![Konkani Heritage Album](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4784.jpg) |
![Portrait of Prof. Saletore](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4804.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Portrait of Prof. B. A. Saletore
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![](/common/left.gif) "Is it OK for a widow to be photographed?"
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![Jogati Manjamma](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/4689.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) A Devotee Balancing an Idol Pictures of the mysterious Yellamma cult, Bellary |
![](/common/left.gif) The Burden of Beads Picture of a Halakki tribal woman. This used to be the tribe's daily (not festive) attire. | ![Picture of a Halakki Gowdati](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2483.jpg) |
![Daldi Community](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2484.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Portrait of a Daldi Fisherwoman
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![](/common/left.gif) Siddi Brothers
| ![The African Indians](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2504.jpg) |
![Never Been Photographed](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2505.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) "You educated can do all kinds of things!"
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![](/common/left.gif) "How much do you charge to take my Photograph?"
| ![Never Been Photographed](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2506.jpg) |
![Never Been Photographed](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2507.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Elderly Man Belonging to the Gouli Community
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![](/common/left.gif) Abel, the Village Tailor
| ![Never Been Photographed](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2508.jpg) |
![Unusual Professions of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5056.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Travelling Knife and Scissors Sharpner Picture of Mehboob the knife sharpener |
![](/common/left.gif) Rag Picker Boy, Bangalore 2000
| ![Trash Pickers](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5064.jpg) |
![Rag Picker Boy Poses](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5065.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Rag Picker Boy, Yeshwantpur Orphaned by the death of his mother, boy takes to rag picking |
![](/common/left.gif) Smiling Lambani Woman The village of Sonduru in Bellary District | ![Gypsy Communities of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5077.jpg) |
![The Women of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5079.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Lambadi Beauty Bearing five daughters does not seem to age this woman, Sondur, 1992 |
![](/common/left.gif) Woman Embroidering Cloth Sonduru, Bellary district, 1992 | ![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5080.jpg) |
![Extreme Laborer](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5100.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Woman Laborer Woman construction worker breaks stone with a hammer |
![](/common/left.gif) Destitute Woman Many poor people in India take up trashpicking to sustain themselves | ![Trash Pickers of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5105.jpg) |
![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5180.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Traditional Iyengari Lady Portrait of Mrs. Masti Venkatesh Iyengar |
![](/common/left.gif) Fisherman with Daily Catch The Kharvi Community | ![Indian Fishermen Communities](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5196.jpg) |
![Tibetan Culture in India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5213.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Decoated Wooden Panel Tibetan Art, Mundgod |
![](/common/left.gif) "Let me see who did it" ! A Tibetan Boy in Mundgod Refugee Center | ![Tibetan Boy](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5224.jpg) |
![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5323.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Lambani Women from Dharwad
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![](/common/left.gif) Tribals Making Festival Headgear from Bamboos Halakki tribes celebrate the harvest festival with these decorated Turayis | ![Halakki Tribal Community](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5344.jpg) |
![Ritual Art of Halakki Tribe](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5348.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Alpana Ritual Art of the Halakki Tribals
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![](/common/left.gif) Folk Musicians, the Village of Kavalakki Harvest dance of the Halakki farmers | ![Celebration of Harvest](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5350.jpg) |
![Goan Woman](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5362.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) A Goan Woman in Marketplace
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![](/common/left.gif) Pioneer Shivaram Karanth Picture Taken 1954 Kannada Literary Conference in Kumta | ![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5368.jpg) |
![The Aborginal People of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5378.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) A Kadu-Kuruba Tribal
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