Op = Op India, a photographic journey (fotoboek) – John Gallagher

India is the largest democracy in the world: about a fifth of the world’s population live in this colorful, exuberant land. From the earliest times India has been a cradle of civilization — the Indus Valley was the world’s largest known urbanized Bronze Age civilization. India was the crossroads of Asia, with close links to both the West and the East. As such it was a temptation to would-be conquerors: Alexander the Great, the Moghuls, the British Empire. This melting pot of a country is host to dozens of e…