Nutan on Filmfare Magazine Cover - 1959

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Portrait of Hindi Movie Actress Nutan

Nutan Behl (née Samarth) (4 June 1936 – 23 February 1991), better known as Nutan, was an Indian actress. She appeared in more than 70 Hindi films in a career spanning over four decades. Regarded as one of the finest female actors in the history of Hindi cinema, Nutan was noted for playing unconventional parts, and her performances often received praise and accolades.
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Sensuous Photograph of Hindi Movie Actress Nutan from Filmindia Magazine - 1956

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Hindi Movie Actress Nutan in Swimming Costume - 1950's

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Hindi Movie Actress Nutan - Various Photographs 1950-60's

Still Photograph form the Bengali Movie Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road), Directed by Satyajit Ray - 1955

Pather Panchali is a 1955 Bengali drama film directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of the Indian state of West Bengal. Based on Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's 1929 Bengali novel of the same name, the film was the directorial debut of Ray. The first film of The Apu Trilogy, it depicts the childhood of the protagonist Apu in the countryside of Bengal in the 1920s.
The child artist in the photograph is Subir Banerjee.

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Still Photographs of Hindi Movie Devdas - 1955

Devdas is a 1955 film directed by Bimal Roy, based on the Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novel, Devdas. The film had Dilip Kumar in title role, Vyjayanthimala in her first dramatic role where she played as Chandramukhi the hooker with a heart of gold and Suchitra Sen in her Bollywood debut as Parvathy in the lead. While Motilal, Nazir Hussain, Murad, Pratima Devi, Iftekhar and Shivraj playing other significant role with Pran and Johnny Walker in extended cameo appearance.
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Living Condition of Poor Families in Bombay (Mumbai) 1946

 Indian mothers with their children living on a verandah in the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables) in the poor section of the city

 Indian women & children in alley between the shacks in the lowest section of the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables) where the sweepers live

 Indian children walking on street in front of rows of one-room tenements in the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables) in the poor section of the city

 Indian children posing in front of rows of one-room tenements in the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables) in the poor section of the city

 Indian male lying on a shaded bed between shacks in the lowest section of the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables) where the sweepers live

 Indian women holding her child as she & her daughter prepare flat bread at small stove in their one-room tenement in the better section of the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables)

 Indian mother with her child living on a verandah in the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables) in the poor section of the city

 Indian children squatting in the alley between their shacks in the lowest section of the Chawls 

Indian family living in open space in the lowest section of the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables)

Indian women & children sitting in the alley between shacks in the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables) in the poor section of the city

Indian children playing in front of rows of one-room tenements in the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables) in the poor section of the city

Indian men & children gathered under the shade of a banyan tree in front of a cluster of shacks in the lowest section of the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables)

Indian women washing clothes at the public water stands in the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables) in the poor section of the city

Indian women with a child lying on a cot on a verandah in the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables) in the poor section of the city

Indian man using a pedal sewing machine as others squat nearby & goats lie about on a verandah the Chawls (quarters for the Untouchables) in the poor section of the city

Photogapher: Margaret Bourke-White
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Tea Pluckers - Ceylon (Sri Lanka) c1930's

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Tamil Family Group Photograph - Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1906

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Calcutta - A Documentary by Peter Middleton 1989

An affectionate 70mins documentary about life in the  city of Calcutta - now Kolkata,  as told by a dozen of the people who love to live there. Filmed in 1989 by Peter Middleton. Channel 4 TV.

 

Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala in Hindi Movie Leader - Still Photographs 1964

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Raj Kapoor and Nargis - c1950's

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Various Photographs of Rodiya Women - Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Rodi or Rodiya are one of the widely reported untouchable social group or caste amongst the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka. Their status was very similar to all the Untouchable castes of India with segregated communities, ritualized begging, eating off the refuse of upper castes and refusal for the women and men to cover their upper bodies.
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