Women gather at a party in Mumbai ( Bombay ) in 1910, a sign that women were very much part of the social scene in many respects.



The daughter of an Indian maharajah seated on a panther she shot, sometime during 1920s. This picture and the others in this series appear in a new book, ' India Then and Now', by Vir Sanghvi and Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Roli Books, India . Pictures courtesy: Roli Books.