Young child dressed and decorated
Band member on train
turbaned man with elaborate beard
Children dressed and decorated as deities
white-bearded man
Group of red-turbaned men
Colorfully veiled woman
young man in green cloth
elderly man with sunglasses
Close-up of woman's eyes
Soldiers in military parade
Wide-eyed, face-painted man in front of flames
Child smiling among elders
Two women in saris in kitchen
Woman and child peering through car window
A woman in colorful veil
girl with piercing eyes
Three men with colorful turbans
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Young Boy, Kolkata (Calcutta)
The ethnic groups of India are as varied as the landscapes of the sweeping Asian subcontinent—Bengalis, Punjabis, Gujaratis, Nagas, Sora, and others add up to nearly 1.2 billion people, making India the world's second most populous country. Pictured here: A young boy dressed as the Hindu deity Lord Krishna
Photograph by Satyaki Basu, Your Shot

Faces of India

See pictures and portraits of Indian people in this travel photo gallery from National Geographic.

June 29, 2010

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