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Traditional everyday life
Despite conspicuous changes in various spheres of contemporary Indian life, ancient traditions, which have been forming for centuries on end, still play an important role in everyday life. Each people and tribe has customs of its own, but all of them have an all-Indian content, in many aspects independent from religious and ethnic identity. This unity is preserved, first and foremost, in everyday norms, in everyday way of life, in traditional garments, homes and their interior, in folk cuisine and so on. Any man having interest for India must take into consideration the important role traditions play in the life of modern Indians.
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Elephants Crossing the River.Sri Lanka (former Ceylon).The First Quarter of the 20th Century.
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A Group of Women in Traditional Costumes. India. The Indians. The Beginning of the 20th Century.
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Traditional Indian Dwelling.Sri Lanka (former Ceylon). The Singhalese. The First Quarter of the 20th Century.
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Ox team - common transportation mode in rural India.By 1903.
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Large motorcab takes 6-8 passengers.India. Snatenkov V.
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In a camel-harnessed cart.India.Dubyanskaya T.
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Indian city public transport - pedicabs, motocabs and buses - at parking place wating for passengers.India. The Indians.Snatenkov V., 20th century.
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Route taxi.India. Dubyanskaya T.
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Pedicabs.India. Dubyanskaya T.
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In winter wear - sari and Kashmir shawl.Nepal. The Nepali.Snatenkov V., 20th century.
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A seller in a textile shop shows the way to gown sari correctly.India. Hyderabad. The Indians.Uspenskaya E., Yanes M., 2006.
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In tailor's shop.India. Dubyanskaya T.
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Deep emerald green colour best fits cloths of young married woman and mother In Maharashtra and several other regions of India.India. The Indians. Snatenkov V., 20th century.
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A muslim boy, seller in rich shop, "winterized" with cotton shawl. Such shawls are worn both by men and women.India. The Indians. Snatenkov V., 20th century.
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Wife of greenrocer and her children sell cultivated vegetables tyical for late autumn in North India.India. The Indians. Snatenkov V., 20th century.
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A tramway in Calcutta.India. Calcutta. Dubyanskaya T.
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