50 Beautiful Pictures of India
India is a land where people of different ethnic groups live together in harmony and respect each other’s religion. A very wide variety of cultures and people can be found in India while we scroll from north to south these diversity of customs can be easily seen in the beautiful photos displayed here. Even when a large portion of India lives below the poverty line but still there do exists enough things that shows that this country is working very hard to curb these problems and it is even regarded as one of the fastest growing economies.
There have been many architectural symphonies built by different groups of people who have ruled this country, during the reign of these different groups there have been various reforms being made in the life and cultures of the people living in this country. Therefore here are 50 Beautiful Pictures of India which will surely let you know about the diversity of cultures and their significance in this country.
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Holi Celebration, India
Photographer Catherine Karnow
What makes this shot work is the dramatic burst of blue spurting into the crowd. No matter how frenetic and energy-filled the scene is, there still needs to be a moment among the frenzy. The blue hand also gives us one sharp point of focus in a sea of turbaned heads. Importantly, the vibrant blue contrasts so well with the yellows and the reds, making the whole scene alive with vitality.
Wedding Procession, India
Photograph by Kun Chang
I took this picture during a wedding procession in Varanasi, India. The band and the lights are part of the groom’s procession, which walks its way toward the bride’s house.
Sadhu, Mana Village
Photograph by Alessandro Scarabelli
Mana village, Uttaranchal, on the India and Tibet border
River
Photograph by Binny Varghese
To get this picture, I got up early in the dark at about 4 a.m. before my work, and tried to get this shot without flash, external artificial light, using the long exposure.
Kusti Wrestlers
Photograph by Suhas Desale
Kusti is a form of traditional Indian wrestling. This image was shot at Mamasaheb Mohol stadium in Sangvi, Pune.
Desert Crossing, Rajasthan, India
Photographer Catherine Karnow
This simple image is all about symmetry and, I would bet, persistence. I doubt the photographer just happened to be standing in the desert when these five women walked by. To get this kind of photograph, you need to spend time with people and follow along with them. In this shot, each woman is stepping forward, and this creates a lovely harmony of movement. Also, each sari is billowing out in the same direction, and the women are evenly separated, which adds to the sense of harmony. To achieve this kind of symmetry, you may have to walk or run alongside the women for as long as it takes to get this shot.
Karni Mata Temple, India
Photograph by Rachael Williams
A woman in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, watches as rats drink milk from a pan at the Karni Mata Temple, a monument to the rat goddess. More than 20,000 rats live in the temple, including a handful of white ones, which are thought to be direct descendents of Karni Mata and therefore considered especially sacred.
Bridal Procession
Photograph by Antonino Pupp
Women in bright saris crowd together as they walk in a bridal procession in Mandawa, Rajasthan. Rajasthan is the largest state in India—a land of extremes—encompassing steamy forests, dry plains, and the snowy Himalaya.
Newborn Weigh-In, India
Photograph by Lynn Johnson
Founded in 1970, the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (also known as Jamkhed, for the city where it is based) delivers preventive care to poor people who otherwise would get none. The project has served 300 villages and 500,000 people in Maharashtra state, including a newborn baby, fully swaddled and suspended for his weigh-in by village health worker Leelabai Amte.
Tiger
Photograph by Steve Winter
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Hunted to death in much of India, tigers survive in Kaziranga National Park.
Camel Trader, India
Photograph by Alison Harbaugh
Rising before the sun, a lone camel trader sits near his fire to keep warm while he waits for the day of trading to begin at the Nagaur Cattle Fair in Nagaur, India.
Diwali Festival, India
Photograph by Joe McNally
Two women in Jaipur hold candles to celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Observed over five days throughout India, it marks, among other things, the start of the new business year and the victory of light over dark.
Boy With Balloons, India
Photograph by Kamala Kannan
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By photographing the shadow of the child running with balloons rather than the actual child, the photographer captured an image that immediately stops us in our tracks. Though the shadow is flat, it has so much movement and life. What is most surprising is how vibrant the colors are, and this is because the background is white/off-white.
Light and Shadow, Agra, India
Photograph by Indian State Railways
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The fall of light, Agra
Babysitting Langurs, India
Photograph by Stefano Unterthiner
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Are these the monkeys’ mothers? Not always. Langurs often share babysitting duties within a close-knit group of females and their offspring. The young are born with thin dark fur that turns thick and grayish gold after a few months.
Bathing Tigress, India
Photograph by Michael Nichols
With feline grace abandoned, Bachhi takes her picture by breaking an infrared beam at an unmanned remote-camera in Bandhavgarh. Sweltering in 120-degree heat, she seeks relief in a pool, despite its fetid brew of rotting leaves and monkey urine.
Delhi, India
Photograph by Mark Henley/Panos
With one foot deeply grounded in time-revered traditions and the other dipping more than just a few toes in the dotcom domain, Delhi embraces diversity with verve and gritty gumption. Modern Delhi has only been India’s capital since 1931, but thanks to its location—a strategic gateway city—it has long played a critical role in shaping the subcontinent’s history. Today, Delhi is one of India’s most multifaceted cities, with the downtown swish restaurants and chichi boutiques serving as a stark contrast to the old city’s medieval-flavored bazaars and historic masterpieces like the Red Fort and Jama Masjid.
Henna Hands, India
Photograph by Petra Warner
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The hands of a woman in Jaipur are covered with mehndi patterns painted with henna. Trendy in recent years, the lacework decorations are part of a 5,000-year-old tradition of creating designs to ward off evil or declare one’s happiness.
Elephant Festival, India
Photograph by Marjorie Lang
The Elephant Festival is one of the most popular festivals in Jaipur and takes place at the famous Chaugan Stadium in March. It begins with a beautiful procession of bedecked elephants, camels, horses, and folk dancers. The mahouts proudly embellish their elephants with vibrant colors, jhools (saddle cloth), and heavy jewelry.
Lake of the Moon, India
Photograph by Dhurjati Chatterjee
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The azure waters of Chandra Tal—Lake of the Moon—in Himachal Pradesh, India, reflect the vivid hues of a bright Himalayan day.
Girl in Pink, India
Photograph by Ken Zogas
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A young girl, a member of a groundskeeping crew at Daulatabad Fort near Aurangabad in central India, and a small bush with bright red flowers, add a splash of color to the stark brown and gray stone of this massive fortress.
Ganges River, India
Photograph by Alessandro Scarabelli
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Hindus gather by the millions along the shores of the Ganges River in the city of Haridwar, in Uttarakhand, north-central India. They consider Haridwar one of Hinduism’s seven holiest sites and flock to the river to ritualistically wash away their sins.
Mumbai, India
Photograph by Sam Hollenshead/Polaris
Home to the razzle-dazzle world of Bollywood—India’s answer to Hollywood—rambunctious Mumbai (Bombay) is an utterly mind-bending assault on all the senses. A veritable melting pot of religions, customs, and culinary traditions, this is India’s economic powerhouse and its most cosmopolitan metropolis. Said to have more millionaires per square mile than Manhattan, Mumbai also has the dubious distinction of housing Asia’s largest slum. Indeed, the “City of Dreams,” as it’s affectionately dubbed, is a city of sharp contrasts: business tycoons drive past scantily clad street urchins; swanky bars overlook rickety chai stalls, and women wrapped in chiffon saris shop alongside college girls flaunting the latest Western designer wear. Yes, if there’s a city that stirs the soul and fires the imagination like no other, it’s Mumbai.
Pushkar Lake, Rajasthan
Photograph by Poras Chaudhary
Pushkar Lake is surrounded by 52 bathing ghats. Every year on the full moon day in the month of Kartik (October/November), which also happens to be the last day of the world famous Pushkar Camel Fair, Pushkar Lake attracts thousands of pilgrims from all over the country to take a holy dip in its waters. It is believed that a dip in its waters cleanses all the sins and is the surest way to achieve salvation from the cycles of life. The lake is dry these days as its conservation work is going on; don’t know what the future holds for the lake in the future.
Monsoon in Trivandrum, India
Photograph by Priit Vesilind
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India’s monsoon rains, seen here lashing palm trees in Trivandrum, Kerala, bring needed water and welcome relief from the long, hot dry season. Unfortunately they may also bring flooding and devastating outbreaks of disease.
Schoolchildren
Photograph by Donald Yip
Schoolchildren take a mathematics test outside the classroom at a school dedicated to Guru Ravidas, a north Indian human rights advocate who in the 15th century campaigned against caste discrimination in India.
Kerala, India
Photograph by Vikram Singh
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Fishing is an important source of income in Kerala. People in the southwestern state also have the highest literacy rate in India and enjoy the best health.
Train, Tamil Nadu
Photograph by Pradeep Kumar
Final journey in meter-gauge railway. The view in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, border in South India.
Basket Weaver
Photograph by Saikat Mukherjee
The woman from Purulia is weaving baskets in order to earn bread for her family. She has to weave as well as to sell the basket in market. Her courageous endeavor is praiseworthy.
Stretching Tiger, India
Photograph by Michel Zoghzoghi
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Pottery Maker
Photograph by Ghanashyam Wagle
Pottery making is a means of livelihood in some of the rural areas of India. It is not only interesting to watch but also rewarding to get your hands dirty. This picture is that of a girl with mehndi on her hands who didn’t mind getting her hands muddy in the excitement of creating the pottery.
Agra, India
Tourists flock to Agra to see the world-famous Taj Mahal, only to realize that the area is home to many other astonishing buildings, among them the 16th-century Red Fort, which once surrounded a Mogul imperial city.
Ladakh
Photograph by Vijender Singhal
This road looks like a snake on a snow-carpeted mountain at the height of about 16,000 feet in Ladakh, India. At this time the temperature is about -26 degrees Celsius.
Winding Road, Jaipur
Photograph by Jacob Alexander
The long walk up this road in Jaipur was definitely worth it for the view.
Goat, North India
Photograph by Svetlana Eremina
There is cold weather in North India in the winter and in the beginning of the spring. That’s why people put old clothes (which they are not using anymore) on goats.
Elephant Dust Bath
Photo and caption by Mia Collis
Elephant dust bath. Ithumba in Tsavo East National Park is the next phase of the elephant’s long road to rehabilitation at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. The trust rescues and rehabilitates orphaned elephants in Kenya. Once the elephants are old enough, they are transported from a nursery in Nairobi to a remote area in the bush. Here it can take up to 10 years before they are fully ready to leave the keepers and join a wild or ex orphan herd.
Holy Men, Haridwar
Photograph by Viveca Venegas
Babas want to get closer to God, so each day at the hottest hour of the day, noontime, they sit around flames of dung and smoke to torture their bodies in sacrifice. Haridwar, India.
Ropewalker, Jaisalmer
Photograph by Alankar Chandra
Girl walking on a rope during the annual desert festival at Jaisalmer, India
Mahout Bathing an Elephant, India
Photograph by Mohit Midha
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Watching a mahout lovingly bathe his elephant, I tried capturing the moment from the riverside but wasn’t satisfied with what I saw through the viewfinder. There was something lacking that made the image not do justice to the scene. I then climbed a tree with a branch extending out over the water and got my shot, which may have been my last as I almost fell off after taking it. I’m sure the beautiful elephant would not have been very happy about me falling out of a tree straight onto her stomach!
Washerwoman, Varanasi
Photograph by Venkatraman Subramanian
Washerwoman along the ghats in Varanasi (also known as Benaras) in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. They wash the clothes in the Ganges and let them dry in the adjoining ghats.
Camel
Photograph by Matteo Berte
Camel sitting in the sand in India
Boatsman on the Yamuna River, India
Photo and caption by David Haltom
Sunrise behind the Taj Mahal, in Agra, India, one January morning. As the fog lifted, a boatsman appeared out of the mist. He guided his craft silently across the calm waters of the Yamuna River. The fog still clung to the banks of the river, blending the waters into the mist and into the sky, in a seamless, cottony gray. No one else was around. The whole world felt smaller.
1946 India and Burma Map
Published in April 1946—just a year before India and Pakistan gained their independence—this map of India and Burma details the numerous provinces of the region. Half of a two-map set, it accompanied the “Political Subdivisions of India” map and three articles on India.
Playful boy
Photo and caption by Anirudha Chakraborty
I was visiting a Santhal tribal village in rural, West Bengal when suddenly this boy passed me by. I picked up my camera and captured him at play. I loved how the light fell on the hut and his body.
Lion
Photograph by Mattias Klum
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Only 200 or so Asian lions exist in the wild. A former royal reserve, India’s Gir Forest, is the last home of this lion subspecies.
Smoking Sadhu
Photograph by Michael Yamashita
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Marigold Vendor, Kolkata
Photograph by Nilanjan Bhattacharya
This street flower vendor in a wholesale flower market in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, kept on loading marigold garlands over his shoulders until he became almost three times his original size, and still kept asking for more.
Sungma Tea Estate, Darjeeling
Photograph by Maulindu Chatterjee
Tea plucking at the lush green gardens at the foothills of the Himalaya around Darjeeling is still an activity dominated by women. They do it perfectly with a smile. Captured at Sungma Tea Estate, Darjeeling, India.
Bara Imambara, Lucknow
Photograph by Gorky Gorky
The Bara Imambara in Lucknow was built in 1783, the year of a devastating famine, and one of Asaf-ud-Daula’s objectives in embarking on this grandiose project was to provide employment for people in the region. According to reports, the famine continued for over a decade and the construction of the building continued for this time. It is said that ordinary people used to work during the day building up the edifice, while noblemen and other elites were called at night to break down the structure.
Sunderbans Delta
Photograph by Tushar Sharma
In a remote village in the Sunderbans delta in West Bengal, India, fresh water is much scarcer during the summertime. Women have to go a half kilometer away to fetch drinking water from a tube well.
