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[[File:Small_Sas_Bahu_temple,_Gwalior_Fort..jpg|thumb|[[Sasbahu Temple, Gwalior|Sasbahu Temple]] photographed by [[Lala Deen Dayal]] in the 1880s.]]<br />
Photography in India refers to both [[History of photography|historical]] as well as to [[Contemporary photography|contemporary]] [[Photograph|photographs]] taken in modern-day India.<br />
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Photography was introduced in India by the British in the early 19th century. The earliest photographers were patronized by the British government and the rulers of the [[Princely state|princely states]].<br />
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== Colonial period ==<br />
[[File:Taj_Mahal_1921.JPG|thumb|A 1914 color photograph of the [[Taj Mahal]], taken by [[Helen Messinger Murdoch]], published in a 1921 issue of ''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]'' magazine]]<br />
Photography was introduced in India by the British in the early 19th century.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Edwards|first=Steve|title=Photography in Colonial India|url=https://www.academia.edu/40325990/Photography_in_Colonial_India|journal=Renata Dohman ed, Empire and Art: British India, Manchester University Press|language=en}}</ref> Notable photographers such as [[Felice Beato]] and [[Samuel Bourne]] spent several years in India, photographing Indian people and architecture. Beato covered the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]] in various cities, and his work is a pioneering effort of [[war photography]]. Bourne set up [[Bourne & Shepherd]] in 1863, and extensively photographed thousands of images of the architecture and landscapes of India.<br />
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The British also conducted efforts to photograph the various castes and tribes of India, as a way of categorising the various people of India, with [[racist]] and [[Orientalism|Orientalist]] undertones. ''[[The People of India]]'' was a multi-volume study which contained hundreds of such images.<ref name=":0" /> The early photographers thus presented a highly exoticised view of India, intended to further the colonial agenda.{{Sfn|Gaskell|Gujral}}<br />
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[[Lala Deen Dayal]] was one of the few native Indian photographers of the 19th century, and the most prolific. In the 1880s, he was appointed the court photographer to the [[Nizam of Hyderabad]].<br />
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Photographers such as [[Kulwant Roy]] and [[Kanu Gandhi]] also documented the events of the [[Indian independence movement|Indian Independence movement]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2016-01-11|title=Rare pictures of the last 10 years of Gandhi's life|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35259671|access-date=2021-06-07}}</ref> <br />
[[File:Mahatma_Gandhi_and_Jinnah_having_a_difference_of_opinion.jpg|thumb|[[Mahatma Gandhi]] and [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah|Jinnah]] photographed by [[Kulwant Roy]] in 1944]]<br />
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== Post-Independence ==<br />
[[Homai Vyarawalla]] was one of the notable Indian photojournalists of the 20th century.<br />
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In 2020, [[Dar Yasin]], [[Mukhtar Khan]] and [[Channi Anand]] became the first Indian photographers to win the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the crackdown in Kashmir.<ref>{{Cite web|title=AP’s Kashmir photographers win Pulitzer for lockdown coverage|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/5/4/aps-kashmir-photographers-win-pulitzer-for-lockdown-coverage|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-05|website=www.aljazeera.com|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[National Photography Awards]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
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* {{Cite book|last=Chaudhary|first=Zahid R.|url=https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Afterimage_of_Empire.html?id=RSjgANSSMOgC&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y|title=Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-century India|date=2012|publisher=U of Minnesota Press|isbn=978-0-8166-7748-1|language=en|ref={{sfnref|Chaudhary}}}}<br />
* {{Cite book|last=Gaskell|first=Nathaniel|url=https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Photography_in_India.html?id=G5OWswEACAAJ&redir_esc=y|title=Photography in India: A Visual History from the 1850s to the Present|last2=Gujral|first2=Diva|date=2018|publisher=Prestel|isbn=978-3-7913-8421-4|language=en|ref={{sfnref|Gaskell|Gujral}}}}<br />
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