Photographs by Deben Bhattacharya (1973)

Deben Bhattacharya (1921–2001) took these photographs in January while travelling in the Santal village of Kamarbaudi (District Midnapore). Deben Bhattacharya was a Bengali musicologist, record producer, documentary filmmaker and writer who, when not on his frequent travels on work, lived in Kolkata and Paris. Much of his work was carried out under the auspices of UNESCO. From his large body of work, two documents on the Santal community have been released: one documentary film, Faces of the Forest (DVD, 1973, 27 minutes) and one musical album, Music of the Santal Tribe (CD, recorded in 1954 and 1973, released in 2014).