Glamor Girl from the Nomads of India - A Lambadi Woman of Substance

I was traveling in Karnataka hopping from Bijapur to Hampi and Pattadikal and Badami.

 

Enroute I espied a bunch of women from the oldest nomadic tribe of India - the Lambadis. They have a fairly large congregation of them in Karnataka in the Gadag region and you have their brethren in Rajasthan and their distant cousins the Gypsies in Romania etc.

Much has changed for them. Now the women go and do hard work in on the roads and fields and this one is carrying a steel tiffin box of food and a digging implement on her shoulder. Inspite of all that is madly changing around them, some of the women have managed to retain the fantastic dressing and styling of their tribe.

 

So here is to the world of chic style and fashion from the very heart of tribal India.

 

Dates

Taken on June 6, 2009 at 9.08AM IST (edit)

Posted to Flickr March 11, 2014 at 3.56PM IST (edit)

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