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
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)
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.[3]
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.
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.[4]
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.[5]
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.[7]
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
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.
The recycling industry in India ...
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.
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.
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.
A daily wage worker in a salt field. The average minimum wage of daily labourers is around Rs.100 per day
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
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,
A coal miner in Bachra, Jharkhand
Children prepare for a traditional dance in Tripura.
Large Gautama Buddha statue in Buddha Park of Ravangla, Sikkim
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.
A Chola bronze depicting
Nataraja, who is seen as a cosmic "Lord of the Dance" and representative of
Shiva
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
Tourists from
North-East India, wrapped in sarongs and shawls, visit the Taj Mahal.
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.
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.
Muslims offer namaz at a mosque in
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.
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.
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.
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.
A street-corner game of pachisi in
Pushkar, Rajasthan
Cricket is the most popular game among India's masses. Shown here is an instance of
street cricket.
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.
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.
^Sudipta Sen (2019),
Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River, Yale University Press, pp. 47–,
ISBN978-0-300-24267-6 Quote: "The confluence of rivers, especially of the Ganges and its tributaries, is one of the most significant geographical spaces for the pilgrim, ... A common name for such a place in Sanskrit ... is prayaga, ... such as
Rudraprayag, situated at the meeting of two rivers: the Mandakini River, coming down from the steep glaciers beyond Kedarnath, and Alaknanda River, making its way from
Badrinath."
^Oates, John F. (1999),
Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest, University of California Press, pp. 35–,
ISBN978-0-520-22252-6 Quote: "The Agastyamalai are the the most southerly portion of the Western Ghats. These wet and rugged hills are one of the last places in South India to support an extensive area of evergreen shola forest, and they are home to what may be the largest surviving population of lion-tailed macaques"
^Kitchener, A. C.; Breitenmoser-Würsten, C.; Eizirik, E.; Gentry, A.; Werdelin, L.; Wilting, A.; Yamaguchi, N.; Abramov, A. V.; Christiansen, P.; Driscoll, C.; Duckworth, J. W.; Johnson, W.; Luo, S.-J.; Meijaard, E.; O'Donoghue, P.; Sanderson, J.; Seymour, K.; Bruford, M.; Groves, C.; Hoffmann, M.; Nowell, K.; Timmons, Z.; Tobe, S. (2017). "A revised taxonomy of the Felidae: The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group". Cat News (Special Issue 11): 66–68.
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help page).
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
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)
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.[3]
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.
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.[4]
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.[5]
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.[7]
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
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.
The recycling industry in India ...
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.
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.
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.
A daily wage worker in a salt field. The average minimum wage of daily labourers is around Rs.100 per day
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
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,
A coal miner in Bachra, Jharkhand
Children prepare for a traditional dance in Tripura.
Large Gautama Buddha statue in Buddha Park of Ravangla, Sikkim
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.
A Chola bronze depicting
Nataraja, who is seen as a cosmic "Lord of the Dance" and representative of
Shiva
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
Tourists from
North-East India, wrapped in sarongs and shawls, visit the Taj Mahal.
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.
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.
Muslims offer namaz at a mosque in
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.
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.
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.
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.
A street-corner game of pachisi in
Pushkar, Rajasthan
Cricket is the most popular game among India's masses. Shown here is an instance of
street cricket.
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.
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.
^Sudipta Sen (2019),
Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River, Yale University Press, pp. 47–,
ISBN978-0-300-24267-6 Quote: "The confluence of rivers, especially of the Ganges and its tributaries, is one of the most significant geographical spaces for the pilgrim, ... A common name for such a place in Sanskrit ... is prayaga, ... such as
Rudraprayag, situated at the meeting of two rivers: the Mandakini River, coming down from the steep glaciers beyond Kedarnath, and Alaknanda River, making its way from
Badrinath."
^Oates, John F. (1999),
Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest, University of California Press, pp. 35–,
ISBN978-0-520-22252-6 Quote: "The Agastyamalai are the the most southerly portion of the Western Ghats. These wet and rugged hills are one of the last places in South India to support an extensive area of evergreen shola forest, and they are home to what may be the largest surviving population of lion-tailed macaques"
^Kitchener, A. C.; Breitenmoser-Würsten, C.; Eizirik, E.; Gentry, A.; Werdelin, L.; Wilting, A.; Yamaguchi, N.; Abramov, A. V.; Christiansen, P.; Driscoll, C.; Duckworth, J. W.; Johnson, W.; Luo, S.-J.; Meijaard, E.; O'Donoghue, P.; Sanderson, J.; Seymour, K.; Bruford, M.; Groves, C.; Hoffmann, M.; Nowell, K.; Timmons, Z.; Tobe, S. (2017). "A revised taxonomy of the Felidae: The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group". Cat News (Special Issue 11): 66–68.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the
help page).