DEDICATION

This virtual exhibition is dedicated to the memories of Indrani and Habibur Rahman, the parents of Sukanya and Ram Rahman. Ram selected, designed and organized the real exhibition, on which this virtual exhibition is based, in NY in 1998. 

 
 
 
      Habibur Rahman and Indrani Rahman,
      Ashbury Park, New Jersey, 1946.
      from: Dancing in the Family,  by Sukanya Rahman,
      Harper Collins (India), 2001

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PREFACE

This is an attempt at a partial digital recreation of the photographic exhibition: Sunil Janah: Inside India, 1940 - 1975.  The real exhibition took place 1998 Aug 15 - Sep 28, at Gallery 678, New York City.

Garos fishing from a canoe, Garo Hills,       
Meghalaya, Northeast India        
© Sunil Janah 1947        
 

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CONTENTS

EXHIBITION SECTIONS
Panels:  Only parts of section 5 (Land & People) are currently viewable.     See also Virtual Exhibition, San Francisco 2000.     Text:  All sections are viewable.     See links below or see Section Texts, NY '98.
Introductory Illustrated Texts	Introduction Curator's Note
Section 0 Virtual Exhibition Start (This Page)	Dedication Preface Contents Exhibition Sections (You are here) Related Pages Copyrights & Credits
Section 1 History in the Making	Text Panels 1-17: not ready - listed below See also: VE SF 2000, SECT 1 Bengal Famine 1943-44: panels 1-2 Famine in South India 1945: panels 3-5 Communist Party Days: panel 6 Quit India, Protest & Struggle 1942-46: panel 7 Peasants & Comrades + Haripura Congress Session 1939: panel 8 Gandhi & Nehru 1939-45: panel 9 Gandhi & Jinnah 1946: panel 10 Simla Conference 1946: panel 11 Politics in the 40's: panel 12 Bengal Partition & Calcutta Great Killing 1946: panel 13 Partition Refugees, Bengal 1946-47: panel 14 Congress Leaders: panel 15 Independence & Gandhi's Assassination 1947-48: panel 16 Bangladesh War and the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty 1970: panel 17
Section 2 Building India's Industries	Text Panels 1-4: not ready - listed below See also: VE SF 2000, SECT 2 The New Industries -1950's The Decade of Hope: panels 1-4
Section 3 Personalities	Text - none, but see this. Panels Faces from Politics, Arts & Sciences: panels 1-3 Panel 1 Panels 2-3: not ready See also: VE SF 2000, SECT 1 (esp. 1.3)
Section 4 Dance & Temple Sculpture	Text Panels 1-4: not ready - listed below See also: VE SF 2000, SECT 4, + this exhibition, Sect. 5.2, panel 5. Shanta Rao: panel 1 Indrani Rahman & Ragini Devi: panel 2 Dancers & Temple Sculpture: panel 3 Temple Sculpture & Tribals: panel 4
Section 5 The Land & the People	Text & Panels 1-17: See below: Page 5.1:  Tribals  (See also Sect 4, panel 4) Page 5.1A: Illustrated Text Page 5.1B: Panels 1-5 Northeast: panel 1 -- Abors, Chakmas, Daflas, Garos, Kachharis, Mishmis & Nagas Central - Murias: panel 2 -- Muria youth in their ghotul Central, Northeast & East: panel 3 -- Murias, Santals, Khasis & Mishmis East, South & West: panel 4 -- Todas, Bhils & Santals East & Central: panel 5 -- Murias, Gadavas & Saoras Mainstream Millions - Villages & Cities Page 5.2A:  Illustrated Text Page 5.2B:  Bengal and Calcutta ( panels 6-9 ) Bengal: panels 6-7 Calcutta: panels 8-9 Page 5.2C:  Miscellaneous 1 ( panels 10-13 ) Misc.: panel 10 -- Bengal & Madhya Pradesh (Temples & Sculpture), Rajasthan (Irrigation) Misc.: panel 11 -- Kashmir, Bengal, Rajasthan (Bhil), Tamilnadu (Irrigation) Misc.: panel 12 -- Gujerat, central & eastern Himalaya, Kashmir, northern India, Gypsy Misc.: panel 13 -- Eastern Himalaya, Bengal, Kashmir, Punjab Page 5.2D:  Miscellaneous 2 ( panels 16-17 ) Kerala: panel 14 -- Malabar Coast Misc.: panel 15 -- Benares, Mumbai/Bombay, Delhi, Punjab, Kerala Misc.: panel 16 -- Bihar, Gujerat, Eastern Himalaya, Bengal, Rajasthan Misc.: panel 17-- Northeast India, Bihar, Kerala ( folk dance), East Central India??

 

RELATED   PAGES
Curator's Note (NY 1998)	Slideshow Introduction	Press Release (NY 1998)
Virtual Exhibition (SF 2000) Home Page	Exhibition (NY '98) Home Page	Context to Exhibits (Section Texts)
Sunil Janah's Home Page