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Rural India Pictures

Pictorial Essays about customs and traditions of Rural India
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Rural Weekly Market

Rural Weekly Market

Rural India Pictures ― Every area composed of a cluster of say 30/40 villages has weekly markets organized at different places on different days. Therefore, same vendors keep on shifting their temporary mobile shops from one location to another in weekly cyclic manner.... (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted 15 days ago
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Hindu Traditional Last Rites

Hindu Traditional Last Rites

Rural India Pictures ― After the death of an old person, he/she is given a tearful and emotional send off from the home by hundreds of men and women. Here are pictures after an 85 year old women died in my village Khandoi.Mourning assembly of men. Mourning women near the... (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted 19 days ago
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Village Meetings

Village Meetings

Rural India Pictures ― Although, many parties to disputes go to police and courts with complaints for settlements, rural people still prefer to resolve their disputes through involvement of reputed persons of the village. Since disputes are a common thing in every society,... (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted 21 days ago
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Wheat from Fields to Godowns

Wheat from Fields to Godowns

Rural India Pictures ― Wheat is one of the principal crops of northern India. it is sown in the winter beginning, and is harvested in month of April when the wheat fields turn from lavish green to golden glow.Wheat Green FieldsWheat Green FieldsWheat fields close of... (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted on Apr 22nd, 2012
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Culture of Rural India

Culture of Rural India

Rural India Pictures ― Culture of people is what they do to build and propagate their traditions generations after generations. Children, particularly girls below the age of 12 are provided with a feast first on every auspicious occasion. This is to underline the fact that... (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted on Apr 19th, 2012
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Flowers of Rural India

Flowers of Rural India

Rural India Pictures ― Rural India a galore in greenery for its agricultural fields, scattered with plants and trees of a great variety. Here are some commonly found blossoms. (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted on Apr 9th, 2012
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Pictures of Teen Aged Dreaming Girls

Pictures of Teen Aged Dreaming Girls

Rural India Pictures ― Teenagers of rural India, as they tend to step into adult life, they feel restlessness to hurry up and dream a lot in this process. Marriage is their greatest dream. Here are some of their pictures in dreamy moods.Cooking Food at Home Maturing at... (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted on Mar 30th, 2012
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Veterans of Village Khandoi - March 2012

Veterans of Village Khandoi - March 2012

Rural India Pictures ― This post is aimed at studying longevity of rural people through real-life photographs of almost all the persons above the age of 70. Other purposes are to pay my respects to these generally neglected persons and keeping their pictures in record for... (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted on Mar 25th, 2012
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Veiled Faces of Rural Women

Veiled Faces of Rural Women

Rural India Pictures ― Beauty of a woman is highly influenced by her health. In-spite of malnutrition, inadequate rest and body care of the rural India women, they are beautiful naturally for the good health they keep through physical work, breathing in fresh air, and... (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted on Mar 22nd, 2012
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Rural Means of Livelihood

Rural Means of Livelihood

Rural India Pictures ― Agriculture is the backbone of rural economy with almost everyone linked and affected by success or failure of harvests. Dependent on this, there are other peripheral means of livelihood, the most important being keeping buffaloes for supplying milk... (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted on Mar 18th, 2012
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Colorful Holi

Colorful Holi

Rural India Pictures ― Holi is the second most important festival of Hindus with the first being Deepawali - the festival of lights. Holi festival is symbolic of diffusing past enmities and making a new beginning of cooperation. It is a two day festival. On the first day... (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted on Mar 16th, 2012
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Women

Women

Rural India Pictures ― Women of rural India are the worst exploited by their respective men. The women work in homes for preparing food, produce and take care of children, serve buffaloes to augment family income, and work in agricultural field with the men enjoying... (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted on Mar 6th, 2012
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Making of Loaves (Rotees)

Making of Loaves (Rotees)

Rural India Pictures ― Loves of wheat, maize, pearl millet, etc is the principal food of north Indian homes, made by women in their kitchens. Women in the kitchen busy in making and baking loaves of wheat flour. Usually, a single woman does all the work in kitchen. Out of... (more)
Tags: Oven, Loaves, Food, Women
 Ram Bansal ― Posted on Mar 5th, 2012
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Domestic Birds

Domestic Birds

Rural India Pictures ― In Rural India, the space is open and there a lot of plants and trees. In such an environment, a great variety of birds inhabit mixing with human population, making the environment pleasing and cleaning many insects, worms and unwanted materials from... (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted on Mar 1st, 2012
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Arranged Hindu Marriage - A Celebration of Life

Arranged Hindu Marriage - A Celebration of Life

Rural India Pictures ― In Rural India, most of the marriages are arranged by parents of the boy and the girl, and to celebrate marriages, they spend a lot of money in feasts and other arrangements for a large number of persons. The groom and the bride get princely... (more)
 Ram Bansal ― Posted on Feb 25th, 2012