22.0 x 27.0cms 168pp b/w & colour photos very good- hardcover (minor damp damage) & dustwrapper This is a compilation of photographs of some of Indias historical moments and personalities as well as its beauty ugliness and ordinariness. Henri Cartier-Bresson Margaret Bourke-White and Steve Curry are some of the western photographers; Raghubir Singh Raghu Rai and Homai Yyarawall are some of the Indians.

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Title: The Definitive Images 1858 To The Present
Publisher: Penguin Viking Ne Delhi 2004
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0670049654
ISBN 13: 9780670049653
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Filled with memorable images, this book is both a photographic history of India since 1857 and a cultural portrait of the country. Also reproduced in the collection are the most popular stills from mainstream cinema, a tribute to the medium that continues to rule the imagination of a sixth of humanity. Includes stunning black-and-white and colour pictures by photographers of great repute among them, some of whom have captured the beauty, others the moment.

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Khushwant Singh was India's best-known writer and columnist. He was founder-editor of Yojana and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and Hindustan Times. He is the author of classics such as Train to Pakistan, I shall Not Hear the Nightingale (retitled as The Lost Victory) and Delhi. His non-fiction includes the classic two-volume A History of the Sikhs, a number of translations and works on Sikh religion and culture, Delhi, nature, current affairs and Urdu poetry. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan. Among the other awards he has received are the Punjab Ratan, the Sulabh International award for the most honest Indian of the year, and honorary doctorates from several universities. He passed away in 2014 at the age of ninety-nine.

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