Holy rat rat-napping in courtyard bannister at Deshnok (position #11 on floor-plan - note red grain-box and niche in wall in background): photo' by Francoise Cooperman
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[N.B. Many of the photographs have been slightly tweaked. The light at Deshnok is evidently very strong and most photographs taken there end up with very bright highlights and very dark shadows: so many of these images have been adjusted to lighten the dark areas while leaving the highlights untouched, to maximize the amount of visible detail.
There are a few more photographs which will be added later if and when I get permission to use them.]
Adam R Lee, a Professor of English teaching in South Korea: images from his collection of pictures of Southern Asia.
Mark Harris: images from the Bikaner section of his A Travel Picture Gallery, which covers much of the Far East, Middle East, Central and South America and Uzbekistan.
Francoise Cooperman, beer-expert and proprietor of Vermin Brewing, which has an excellent website devoted in equal parts to beer and rats, provided numerous stills taken from a video of her trip to Deshnok, plus very helpful descriptions of various aspects of the site.
Mike Meaney, Irish programmer and web designer, from the India - Large section of his photo' directory of images from his 2½ year trip round the world. Note that the India - Large page contains 60 high-resolution photographs - the standard is very high, but if you don't want to spend 40 minutes downloading all the images you can go to Mike's thumbnails page to pick the photo' of your choice.
Janet and Chris Beaudin and Susan Romeril - image from the India Pictures section of their the big trip website, which chronicles their journeys through Nepal, India, and South East Asia between October 1998 and July 1999.
Kees van Duyn, a.k.a. duke0123, a former soldier, now telecomm administrator, living in Assen, The Netherlands and aiming to break into web design: from his Fascinating India page at the Virtual Tourist site.
David Montouroy, from Deshnok page of his French-language site Mon Voyage en Inde: this site is elegant and sophisticated in design and worth a look even if you can't read the text.
Matt Long and Heidi Thoren, from the Mandawa & Bikaner page of their Our Passage to India site.
Prominent BBC wildlife-photographer John Downer: photo's taken from the Rat Relatives section of Mr Downer's book Lifesense, and used with the permission of John Downer Productions Ltd..
Rainer Stalvik, who has a Swedish-language site on "Worldwide Advanced Trekking" with images from his travels around India, the Far East, Northern Europe and South America.
Frédéric Hemmer, from the Deshnoke, Temple des Rats page of his French-language site L'Inde en 1001 Photos.
First two photographs of religious pictures of Ganesh, and picture of Durgha, are Copyright © 1996-current year Kamat's Potpourri - The History, Mystery, and Diversity of India (All Rights Reserved). This is a very lively, chatty, well-designed site full of all sorts of information and images - worth a visit even if you didn't know you were going to be so interested in India.
Photograph of painted rondel showing Ganesh and his rat eating laddus is from the Invocation page of Repainting the Past: A Golden Jubilee Exhibition Of Post-colonial Indian Miniatures. This exhibition, of mid to late 20th C religious miniatures/illuminations painted in Rajasthan in traditional mid-18th C style, was held in 1997 at Saint Xavier University's SXU Gallery in Chicago, to mark the 50th anniversary of India's independence from the Raj. The curater was Michael D. Rabe, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History at Saint Xavier University, Chicago. Click on the rondel of Ganesh to read about this particular painting's meaning and history.