Photography as a medium has captured the diverse realities of women's lives over the last century and a half, providing a more holistic understanding of what is learned through the written word, memory , and recall. Visualizing Indian women is a collection of 300 such rare photographs depicting women's lives during the period 1857*1947, gleaned from archives as well as private collections.
Based on a travelling exhibition curated by the Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi, the book consists of images and explanatory captions that are divided into five sections, following a more or less chronological development of Indian women during this period.
Visualizing the Family's showcases family photographs that focus on the changing role f women , the emergence of the urban nuclear family , domestic rituals , and home performances.
Pioneers in educational reform ad the experiences of women in schools and colleges are looked at in 'The Learning Experience'.
'Worlds Beyond' has visuals of women as agricultural laborers and factory workers, the beginning of women's emancipation as they moved into professions, the creative arts and politics- possible only with enhanced physical mobility.

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