An exploration of the early history of the nation through personal photographs

Abstract

This paper is historically situated in the events around the transition of India from a colonial state to an independent one. Using personal photographs the paper explores the position of a middle class Muslim family in post-partition India.

Notes

1 See Richard Dyer, “Charisma” (in Christine Gledhill, ed: Stardom: Industry of Desire, London: Routledge, 1991) and SN Eisenstadt, ed., Max Weber on Charisma and Institution Building, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1968.

2 Bindi is a cosmetic wear in the form of a dot between the eyebrows originally worn by Hindu women of South East Asia, but now has become a fashionable marker across religions.