| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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The main temple building which dates from 1542.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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Worshippers.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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Temple musicians.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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Katakali dancing.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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Golden flagpole.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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The temple is famous for its wall paintings of deities.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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Mural of Shiva.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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Mural of a demon.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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Shiva.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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Figure standing on a snake.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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Cloisters around the courtyard.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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One of the temple gates.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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Temple elephant.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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The temple is surrounded by palm trees.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Kottayam
Site / Event : Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple
|
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Young woman at the temple.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Periyar National Park is located in the Western Ghats in the north of Kerala state.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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The Periyar region covers an area of 925 square km.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Misty mountain views on the slopes of the Western Ghats.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Forested hills.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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The Western Ghats separate Kerala from Tamil Nadu.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Settlement at 1000m.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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350 sq km of Periyar is designated as a national park.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Tea growing on the slopes of the Western Ghats.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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A tea plantation.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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River valley.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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River passing through Periyar.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Flooded area.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Labourers.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Working Indian elephants with their mahoots.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Wild donkeys.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Horses.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Bonnet Macaque in a bamboo forest.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Bonnet macaque.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Nilgiri langur.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Periyar Lake is the centre of the region.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Wild boar.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Comerants.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Periyar National Park
|
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Egrets.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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The city of Cochin. The red tiled roofs are typical of this region.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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The city has been a port for 3000 years.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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In its long past, Cochin has traded with Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Chinese.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Canals passing through the city.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Mattancherry Palace
|
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Mattancherry Palace dates from 1557.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Mattancherry Palace
|
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The palace was built by the Portuguese and presented to the Raja of Cochin.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Typical street scene.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Wholesale shops.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Corner shop.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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A round Hindu shrine.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Paradesi Synagogue
|
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The Paradesi Synagogue dates from 1568. It is the oldest in the Commonwealth.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Paradesi Synagogue
|
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A Jewish community has lived in India from 6th Century BCE.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Paradesi Synagogue
|
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The interior.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Paradesi Synagogue
|
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Hebrew inscription from an earlier synagogue.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Paradesi Synagogue
|
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Hand painted tiles from Canton (1762).
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Cochin has been home to a Jewish community for 2500 years. They arrived in several waves (Israel 580 BCE), Palestine (1st century), Persia (5th century) and Spain (1492 - 1514).
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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The Jewish community was granted refuge by local rajas but this was disrupted by the Portuguese.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Jewish house in the Jewish Quarter.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Women sorting ginger. Kerala is famed for its spices.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Spice market.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Spice warehouse.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Busy street scene.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Row of houses.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Church of St Francis
|
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The Church of St Francis is the oldest European church in India dating from 1503.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Church of St Francis
|
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Vasco de Gama, the first European to sail around Africa, was buried here for a while.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Keralite villa.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Street full of mansions and villas.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Dutch style mansion from the period when the Netherlands vied with Portugal for control of the region.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Cochin has many cultural influences having traded with Romans, Greeks, Syrians, Arabs, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and British.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Man walking in deserted midday street.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Ferry stop.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Narrow residential street.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Shuttered windows.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Children being taken to school on a rickshaw.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Residential street.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Shading from the midday sun.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Entrance to a primary school.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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School children in their class room.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Muslim woman.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Snack stand.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Shops in the centre of old Cochin.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Street scene.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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A Muslim family outside their house.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Apartments and houses.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Church of Santa Cruz
|
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The Church of Santa Cruz was built by the Portuguese.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Church of Santa Cruz
|
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The church dates from 1505.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Pastel coloured house.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Small village at the end of the city.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Residential district of Cochin.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Mansion built by spice merchants.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Mansions.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Maharaja's Palace
|
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The entrance to the Maharaja's Palace.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Maharaja's Palace
|
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The palace is on a hilltop reached by a long flight of stairs.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Maharaja's Palace
|
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View from the hilltop.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Maharaja's Palace
|
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The palace was built in 1865 and was the home of the ruler of Cochin.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Maharaja's Palace
|
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The palace is now a museum.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
Site / Event : Maharaja's Palace
|
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Tending the gardens.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Chinese cantilever fishing were brought to India by Kublai Khan's traders.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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A Chinese cantilever fishing net.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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The Chinese fishing nets are very common in Kerala and are a feature of Cochin.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Several men are needed to haul up the net.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cochin
|
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Birds hovering over the catch.
|
1989 |
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