User:Fowler&fowler/Improved Images in FA India

As of 3 May, 2019, there were 71 images in the FA India. Many are a of a group of rotating images, which change every day, so you will not see them all at once, but gradually over a week. As far as I am aware, the article has more images than any other Featured Article. It took over a year to build the consensus for these images, from October 2011 to November 2012, with inputs from dozens editors. It began with admin Saravask's post in section 25, Talk:India/Archive 35, and sections below, to Talk:India/Archive 36, and ended with Talk:India/Archive 37, sections 33 through 38, in November 2012. Pictures marked with a are Wikipedia Featured Pictures, representing some of the best photographs on Wikipedia. Note that the pictures are balanced by region, and in the case of humans, by gender and ethnicity, as much as was possible then. This is an attempt to improve the images per a very helpful Talk:India post of Moxy (talk · contribs) a little while ago. (Featured pictures of India on Wikipedia can be found on: Category:Featured_pictures_of_India. On Commons, they can be found here, and here.)

List of images

History Section

1. Ajanta. 2. Brihadeeswar Temple, Cholas, 3. Mughal miniature. 4. Map of British Indian Empirel, 5. Gandhi and Nehru

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  Paintings at the Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, 6th century
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  The granite tower of Brihadeeswarar Temple in Thanjavur was completed in 1010 CE by Raja Raja Chola I.
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  Writing the will and testament of the Mughal king in Persian, 1590–1595
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  Two mohur gold coin issued by the East India Company during the reign of William IV
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  The British Indian Empire, from the 1909 edition of The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Areas directly governed by the British are shaded pink; the princely states under British suzerainty are in yellow.
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  Jawaharlal Nehru (left) became India's first prime minister in 1947. Mahatma Gandhi (right) led the independence movement.

Geography

6. Kedar Range and Mount Kedarnath, (with out-of-context mention of temple and jyotirlinga shrines which were probably not part of the original caption supplied by AshLin)

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  The Kedar range of the Greater Himalayas rises behind the Kedarnath Temple in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Snow melt from the glaciers behind Kedarnath forms the Mandakini river, one of the headstreams of the Ganges river.
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  The Agasthiyamalai range, constituting the southern end of the Western Ghats, as seen from the rainshadow region of the southwest monsoon in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu.
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  The Kosi river, shown here during a flood, rises in Nepal, rushes down with great force through its narrow Himalayan valley, and debouches in a flat plain in Bihar, India, where the river bed has risen so much from deposited silt that the river attempts to find a new course.
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  A beach off the Arabian Sea in Puvar, Kerala. The Arabian Sea is the northwestern region of the Indian Ocean, bounded by the Arabian and Indian peninsulas.

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  The Thar desert, 85% of which lies in the Indian state of Rajasthan, spreads over an area of 2,340,000 km² (900,000 sq mi). It constitutes the northwestern limit of the southwest monsoon.
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  Flowing through its rocky terrain near Hampi is the Tungabhadra river, the major right bank tributary of the Krishna river, a peninsular river, which empties into the Bay of Bengal. The coracles, made of wicker, are traditionally covered with hide, their circular shape preventing them from overturning in rivers with rocky outcrops.
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  The Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean
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  The Kanchenjunga massif, the third highest mountain in the world in the eastern Himalayas, viewed from Darjeeling

Biodiversity section (rotating)

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  A NASA satellite image of North Sentinel Island, a part of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which is covered by a very dense tropical moist forest.
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  Indian vultures, (Gyps indicus), in a nest on the tower of the Chaturbhuj Temple, Orchha, Madhya Pradesh. The vulture became nearly extinct in India in the 1990s from having ingested the carrion of diclofenac-laced cattle.
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  The Pahalgam valley in Jammu and Kashmir is covered with a temperate coniferous forest.
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  A Chital (Axis axis) stag attempts to browse in the Nagarhole National Park in a region covered by a moderately dense dry deciduous teak forest.

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  The bank myna is indigenous to the Indian subcontinent.
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  The vulnerable Malabar frog is endemic to the Western Ghats.
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  The endangered Nilgiri tahr is endemic to the Western Ghats. Shown here is a female in a national park in Kerala.
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  India has the majority of the world's wild tigers, numbering nearly 3,000 in 2019, but the Bengal tiger is one of IUCN-designated endangered animals. Shown here is Maya, a Bengal tigress of the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra.

Politics

11. Barack Obama at Indian Parliament, 12. Rashtrapati Bhavan

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  Sansad Bhavan.
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  The Rashtrapati Bhavan is the official residence of the President of India.

Government

13 Infobox National Symbols, 14. Administrative subdivisions

Foreign, Strategic ...

15. INS Vikramaditya largest in Indian fleet 16. BRICS leaders at 2016 G20

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  INS Vikramaditya, the Indian Navy's biggest warship.
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  Leaders of the BRICS nations

Economy (rotating)

17. Farmer milking cow with calf 18. Agriculture workers rice planting 19. Ploughing with cattle W. Bengal. 20. Fishermen Cochin 21. Washing plant for mined iron ore, 22 India's GDP, 23 Daily wage worker in Salt field, 24. Mid-day meal Chambal, 25. Paddy transplantation in Tamil Nadu

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  A farmer in Rajasthan milks his cow. Milk is India's largest crop by economic value. Worldwide, as of 2011, India had the largest herds of buffalo and cattle, and was the largest producer of milk.
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  The recycling industry in India ...
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  Indian agriculture dates from the period 7,000–6,000 BCE, employs two thirds of the national workforce, and is second in farm output worldwide. Above, a farmer works an ox-drawn plow in Kadmati, West Bengal.
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  An example of the Chinese fishing nets of Cochin. Fisheries in India is a major industry in its coastal states, employing over 14 million people. The annual catch doubled between 1990 and 2010.

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  India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV-III), a three-stage, medium-lift launch vehicle, lifts off at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh.
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  A tea garden in Sikkim. India, the world's second largest-producer of tea, is a nation of one billion tea drinkers, who consume 70% of India's tea output.
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  A daily wage worker in a salt field. The average minimum wage of daily labourers is around Rs.100 per day
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  Schoolchildren in Chambal, Madhya Pradesh eating a mid-day meal. The Mid-Day Meal Scheme attempts to lower rates of childhood malnutrition in India.

Industry (rotating)

26. Bombay Stock Exchange, 27. Largest IT park in Asia 28. Delhi metro as example of Infrastructure, 29. Power loom 30. Bangaluru Cell phone tower, 31. Vegetable seller Tamil Nadu as example of unorganized retail sector 32 Small Hydroelectric dam 33. Cargo ship leaving Diamond Harbor

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  The Bombay Stock Exchange is Asia's oldest and India's largest bourse by market capitalisation.
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  Infosys Leadership Institute in Mysuru built by India's information technology giant Infosys.
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  Coaches of the Delhi Metro Blue Line, manufactured by Bombardier Transportation, Canada.
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  Power Loom used inside a house in a village near Salem, Tamil Nadu. Power loom accounts for more than 60% of textile production in India.

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  A computer lab being conducted at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, September 2012
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  A vegetable retailer in Tamil Nadu. More than 95% of retail industry in India is unorganised.
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  A small hydro-electric dam on the Ganges Canal at Nagla Kabir, UP. The electricity sector in India has an installed capacity of 205.34 Gigawatt (GW), the world's fifth largest.
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  A feeder ship in Diamond Harbour, West Bengal. International trade accounted for 14% of India's GDP in 1988, 24% in 1998, and 53% in 2008.

Demographics (rotating)

34. Coal miner Jharkhand 35. Children Tripura 36. Women in Kargil, 37. Handicraft seller Hyderabad, 38. Bondo woman Chhattisgarh, 39. Women at adult literacy class Tamil Nadu, 40. Lady in Bundi Rajasthan, 41. Sadhu Varanasi,

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  A coal miner in Bachra, Jharkhand
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  Children prepare for a traditional dance in Tripura.
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  Women in Kargil, Jammu and Kashmir
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  A handicraft seller in Hyderabad, Telangana

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  A Bondo woman walks to a weekly market in Chhattisgarh.
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  Women attend a literacy programme in Thiruputkuzhi, Tamil Nadu.
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  A woman in Bundi, Rajasthan
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  An ascetic in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Culture (rotating)

42. Worli tribal painting, 43 Gandhara Buddha, 44. Goswami Tulsidas author of Ramcharitmanas, 45. Hampi, Vijayanagara Empire, 46. Mahabodhi temple, Gaya, 47. Shiva bronze, Chola 48. Toda tribal hut

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  A sixteenth century rendering of a scene from the Ramayana, an ancient Sanskrit epic.
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  Bangles on display in Bangalore India
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  A Sadhu and a picture of Siva in Kayasth Tola, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh in Northern India
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  The pushkarani, or tank, located on the eastern side of Krishna temple in Hampi, Karnataka, the seat of the Vijayanagara Empire

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  Large Gautama Buddha statue in Buddha Park of Ravangla, Sikkim
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  A Jain woman washes the feet of Bahubali Gomateswara at Shravanabelagola, Karnataka. The Bahubali idol is 58 feet (18 m) high and is carved out of a single rock on top of a hill.
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  A Chola bronze depicting Nataraja, who is seen as a cosmic "Lord of the Dance" and representative of Shiva
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  A Toda tribal hut exemplifies Indian vernacular architecture.

Performing Arts (rotating)

49. Rukmani Devi Bharat Natyam, 50 Deepkia Reddy Kuchipudi dancer, 51 Sudhesna Bhattacharya, sarod player in concert, 52. Evening qawwali Fatehpur Sikri (video), 53. Muria tribal dancers Chhattisgarh, 54. Folk musicians Hyderabad

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  A bharatnatyam concert in 2014
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  A Kuchipudi dance performance is accompanied by Carnatic vocalisations.
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  Sarod performance at the Musée Guimet, Paris

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  The tomb of Itmad Ud Daulah, Agra,
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  Muria tribal dancers in Bastar, Chhattisgarh
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  Folk musicians in Hyderabad

Society, Cuisine etc (rotating)

55. Tourists from Northeast in sarong and shawls at Taj Mahal, 56, Rajput Hindu marriage ceremony, 57 Hindu temple rituals (a) preparing deity for worship, (b) making sandlewood paste (c) dripping alter with milk and honey, (d) distributing prasad, 58. Indian Christian wedding 59. Indian kitchen outdoors and indoors (a) Thar desert (b) kitchen of Hindu temple Karnataka, 60. Muslims praying in mosque, 61 (a) North Indian tiffin lunch in Mumbai brought by dabbawala, (b) South Indian thali served in restaurant, 62. Sikh pilgrim at Golden temple

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  Tourists from North-East India, wrapped in sarongs and shawls, visit the Taj Mahal.
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  A Hindu bride
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  Four activities of a Hindu priest, clockwise from top left: (1) preparing the deity for public worship; (2) making sandalwood paste for ritual blessing; (3) successively dripping the altar with milk, honey, dry fruit, yoghurt, and bananas to make ambrosia; (4) distributing the Prasad, food viewed as blessed by the deity, to the worshipers.
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  The interior of San Thome Basilica, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Christianity is believed to have been introduced to India by the late 2nd century by Syriac-speaking Christians.

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  Top: Roti bread and sabzi (vegetable) stew are cooked outdoors in the Thar Desert using traditional Rajasthani methods. Bottom: The kitchen of a Hindu temple.
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  Muslims offer namaz at a mosque in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.
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  Top: A North Indian home-cooked tiffin lunch as delivered to an office by a dabbawala. Bottom: A South Indian thali-style dinner as served in a restaurant.
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  A Sikh pilgrim at the Harmandir Sahib, or Golden Temple, in Amritsar, Punjab

Sports (rotating)

63 Girls playing hopscotch, 64. Dhyan Chand and hockey team, Berlin 1936, 65. Street corner game of pacheesi, 66. Kabaddi in Karnataka, 67. Boys playing soccer in Manipur, 68 Street cricket, 69 Martial art Kerala, 70. Vishwanathan Anand, Chess grandmaster, 71, Sachin Tendulkar record setting cricket player.

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  Girls play hopscotch in Juara, Madhya Pradesh.
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  Indian hockey team, captained by Dhyan Chand (standing second from left), after winning the finals at the 1936 Summer Olympics – their third of six consecutive Olympic golds.
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  A street-corner game of pachisi in Pushkar, Rajasthan
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  A game of kabaddi in Bagepalli, Karnataka

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  Boys playing football in Manipur.
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  Cricket is the most popular game among India's masses. Shown here is an instance of street cricket.
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  Indian chess grandmaster and former world champion Vishwanathan Anand competes at a chess tournament in 2005. Chess is commonly believed to have originated in India in the 5th century CE.
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  During a twenty four-year career, Sachin Tendulkar has set many batting records, including most runs in both tests and ODIs and most number of centuries in both tests and ODIs, making him one of the most successful cricketers ever.