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 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.)

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

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)

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

Government
13 Infobox National Symbols, 14. Administrative subdivisions

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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.