Gonds at Patalkot near Tamia (Chhindwara Jagers) just after the election, Mar 1937 (for the Provincial Legislative Assembly in accordance with the 1935 Act giving "one man one vote"). Photographer: Ramsden, Geoffrey Charles Freschville
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of men sitting at the roadside. Caption continues: 'We found, on enquiring from these Gonds, that they had voted for "Gandhiji" - ie for Congress (for Gandhi himself was not a candidate!) - put their "tickets" into the "box with a bullock on it"'. Subje...