Take a walk through history with kamat.com and see India in all its splendour, past and present, through the photographic lens of another Indian
Kamat.com is a family-owned and designed Web site, which takes the visitor on a tour through India of the past and present. The site consists largely of photographs taken by the head member of this family, Krishanand Kamat, during his travels through India. The site includes information on Indian history and mythology and even the freedom struggle, highlighting some of the major events in our history. Aside from this, it is the photographs that have been posted here that set this Web site apart. The photographs capture the very essence of India, its culture and tradition. These include photographs of sculptures from various Indian temples and shots depicting some of India's many festivals. Some pictures include interesting artistic depictions of Indian mythology. The site, however, isn't very systematically arranged. You will find scores of links in almost every page, each taking you to a different or related topic and, hence, you could find yourself sidetracked from your original search. At times you find more visual and pictorially dense information than textual information. All the same though, kamat.com is a good enough site for some insight into Indian history and also a glimpse at Indian culture and everyday life..
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Kamat's Potpourri
The Timeless Theatre
Mahatma Gandhi Album
Tryst with Destiny
Never been Photographed
Geographica Indica
Kamat's Potpourri
Kamat's Potpourri is one of the main sections of the site and also the opening page for the site. Here you can find a whole lot of information to browse through and links to some of the other sections and interesting topics on the site. You can look for pictures and information on various topics like 'the Hindu ordaining ritual', ' Artifacts of ancient heritage', 'Timeline of Indian art' and a whole lot more.
The Timeless Theatre
Here you have a whole range of photographs clicked by Kamat and categorised under a wide variety of topics. You can see photographed portraits of Mughal kings, artists and writers. You also have photographs depicting Indian art, mythology, royalty and even Indian poverty. This section is pictorially dense and brings into focus certain elements of Indian life that we otherwise tend to overlook.
Mahatma Gandhi Album
The opening page of the site contains a link to an album dedicated to the Mahatma. Here you will find a biography, illustrations and portraits of Gandhi. This section also contains pictures and portraits depicting moments from Gandhi's life. There is also a link called 'ask Gandhi', where you can gain insight into his perceptions and beliefs in a rather interesting manner. You can put forth your questions as if to Gandhi himself, which are later answered in the first person and posted on the site by the author.
Tryst with Destiny
Take a trip down memory lane and relive what we've learnt in history books in school. Recreate India's freedom struggle with the help of pictures and descriptions of some of the most important events in the Indian freedom struggle from the first war of independence of 1857 to the Quit India movement. See pictures of great Indian freedom fighters from Shivaji to Subhash Chandra Bose and Pandit Nehru making the declaration of Independence.
Never been photographed
A very poignant look at the common folk of India. People who have never really been in the limelight but find themselves in the line of fire of a photographers camera while going about their day to day life.
Geographica Indica
This is one of the navigation tools available on the site. You have here pictures on topics like 'The people of India', 'Timelines of India', 'List of maps', 'Biographies', 'Frequently asked questions' and more. Another navigation tool available is the clickable sitemap which is a tree diagram of the contents on the site. To get to each location, all you have to do is click on the topic.
