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
51 The village stud bull
52
53 Digging a grave for the bull
The Bavria foodhunting tribe living in the Rajasthan desert.
54 Bavrias with alive lizards
55 Lizards with broken backs
56 Live lizards for later consumption
Bahi Bhat family pedigree recorder
57 Bahi Bhat
58 Merasi
59 Niharia
60 Ganvaria Banjara
61 Ganvaria Banjara
62 Kuchia
63 Jogiji
64 Arranging the warp
65
66 Jogiji weaving
67 Another Chelana weaver
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70 Spinning
71 Spinning
Chelana women wearing traditional handwoven cloth
72 A Jat farmer woman
73 Two Jat girls
74 Bhambi girl at muklava
75 A Bhambi lady
76 Bahi bhat
Hail storm damage
77 A Sargara girl swinging her gofan
78 At the destroyed wheat crop
79 Sharecropper at his damaged field hut
Entertainers
80 A Raval man at a night show
81 The group the next morning
82 Banjania Nat and visitors
83 A professional drummer at Chelana
84 Playing together with his son
85 A drummer for farmers
86 With his daughter
The way untouchables were offered water
87 A Bhambi woman drinks water
Those who barbers did not serve
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90 A barber at Tilvara
91 A barber shop at Chelana
92 Bazar with barber shop
Leather and untouchability
93 A Brahmin working with leather
An outcasted Bhambi
94 Dipa Ram Bhambi and Choga Nat
95 Dipa Ram dances although outcasted
96 Dipa Ram's granddaughter
97 Dipa Ram's son readmitted into his caste 1980
98 In 1999
99 Dipa Ram's son together with his friends
100
Wedding gifts among Bhambis
101 The Mayra gift at display
102
103 All of it taken away in the yellow cloth bundle.
Shanshi cobblers that filled the gap after bhambi cobblers had stopped repairing shoes
104 At the Chelana bazar in 1987
105 At the new bus station in 1995
People working with other leather items
106 Water carriers at Tilvara cattle fair
109 Mochis making shoes
107 Leather bags for water lifting in wells.
108 Trade in hides at Tilvara
Removing dead animals at Chelana
110
Basket makers of the Bhangi caste
111 Madhobhai at Chelana
112 A basketmaker of Paldi village
113 A sweeper girl using such baskets
Bhangis collecting money after Id function
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The skilled Bhangi craftsmen of Butati village
116 Kalyan at Chelana
117 Butati basket maker
118 Fine cords from animal carcass.
119 Two layers for additional strength
120 A winnowing basket
121 They also made this broom.
122 Excellent for thorough sweeping
The sweeper boy at Jodhpur
123 Badri
124 All these children were professional sweepers at well-off families
125 Badri at a big family function
Baya and her friends at Chelana
126 Baya has an early morning chat with a neighbour
127 The Harijan mohalla of the Bhangis
128 First she swept her own house yard.
129 Baya on her way to work
130 Outside the entrance of a Rajput house
131 Baya with her big bread basket
132 The roti bread is thrown to her as she is untouchable.
133 Her cousin gets her bread in the same way from Bhambi lady.
134 The young women meet while on duty.
135 Three teenager cousins with iron pans for removing shit.
136 A small sister wants to carry the bread basket.
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.