Marginal Tribes of the Himalayas
Tibetan Lamas
"The People of India" includes striking portraits of the marginal tribes of the Himalayas, allowing us to sense the authenticity and beauty of indigenous peoples through these precious photographs.
Tibetan Buddhists
The Bhotia tribe
The Bhotia tribe is primarily distributed in regions such as Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepal, and Darjeeling. They are indigenous to the Himalayan area.
The Bhotias of Sikkim live throughout the valleys surrounding the Himalayas leading to the plains. Their speech, demeanor, physical characteristics, and clothing customs are identical to those of the Tibetans.
Bhotias of Sikkim
Bhotias of Sikkim
Bhotia Buddhists
Bhotia Buddhists
The Lepcha Tribe
The Lepcha tribe is primarily distributed in Sikkim and is the first group of residents to arrive in Sikkim. Some are also found in western Bhutan, eastern Nepal, and West Bengal.
Originally a branch of the Tibetan ethnic group, the Lepcha tribe maintains close economic and cultural ties with the Tibetans. They have no fixed settlements and rarely stay in one place for more than three years. Upon reaching a certain period, they move to another location to live.
Lepcha Indigenous People, Sikkim
Lepcha Indigenous People, Sikkim
Lepcha Indigenous Women, Sikkim
Lepcha Indigenous People, Sikkim
Lepcha Boatmen, Sikkim
Sikkim Minister, Tibetan, Sikkim
Bhutanese
Bhutan is located in southern Asia, an inland country on the southern slope of the eastern Himalayas. According to Sanskrit texts, the indigenous people of Bhutan are the Kuchi tribe. The people of this tribe are known as "Ngalop" and migrated from Tibet, China, to the northern and western regions of Bhutan in the 9th century AD, bringing Tibetan culture and Buddhism to Bhutan.
Bhutanese, Darjeeling
Bhutanese
Traditional Attire of the Bhutanese
Origin of Creation
John William Kaye
"The People of India" is an eight-volume book compiled between 1868 and 1875 by John Forbes Watson and John William Kaye, primarily documenting research reports on the marginal tribes of the Himalayas. It includes 468 annotated photographs of the indigenous peoples of the Himalayan tribes.
Canning
The creation of this book originated from Canning and his wife Charlotte's desire to collect a photographic compilation of indigenous peoples. Photography was a new technology at the time, and Canning conceived and researched the photography of the Himalayan indigenous peoples.
The book was ultimately published as an eight-volume series of atlases, vividly documenting the typical characteristics of the indigenous peoples through both images and text, including their appearance, attire, customs, daily life, and more.
