A ruined temple in Bankura District, India.
A Hindu holy man places offerings at a shrine.
Goats explore a shrine in Gharbeta, Bankura district, India.
Offerings at a guard shrine in Garhbeta, Bankura District, India.
The entrance to the ancient Karnagah Temple, Bankura District, India. This medieval temple is still in use today.
Idols at Karnagah temple, Bankura District.
Prayer Scarves in Karnagah Temple, Bankura District, India.
A potter at work in Panchmura, making the idols which will be offered up at shrines. Terracotta idols are a speciality of Panchmura.
Terracotta idols, recently baked.
Clay idols, ready to be baked.
A terracotta horse idol, left at a shrine by the Siddhesvara temple.
A man in front of a row of ruined temples in Patobagra village, Bankura district.
Ruins of a temple in Patobagra.
A view down the arches of Rasmancha temple in the centre of the city of Bishnupur, Bankura District, India.
This temple is one of the best preserved examples of the carved terracotta temples of the medieval kingdom of Bishnupur. All four sides feature hundreds of carvings telling stories of Hindu mythology.
Women and girls give offerings to Shiva at Sailesvara and Saresvara temples in hopes of finding a husband as part of the festival of Shiviratri.
Women wait having placed offerings as part of the festival of Shiviratri.
Women drink at a water tower during the festival of Shiviratri.
Cows roam the streets in Bishnupur, passing in front off a ruined temple.
In the gardens of Radheshyam temple in central Bishnupur, looking toward Jor Bangla temple.
A lizard on a wall outside Radheshyam temple.
Thousand year old idols in the still active medieval Mrinmoyee temple at the heart of the city of Bishnupur.
The manmade, medieval Krishnabandh lake. Build for defensive and irrigation reasons to protect the kingdom of Bishnupur. Legend has it the lake was once stocked with crocodiles!
A woman washes clothes on the banks of Krishnabandh, Bishnupur.
Joypur forest through which runs the road into Bishnupur.
A rickshaw driver drives past the ponds in Bishnupur.
A weaver hand weaving Sari's using a large, mechanical loam in central Bishnupur.
The large mechanical loom used to weave saris reading the pattern from punch cards.
A young boy displays his catch having been fishing in a mud pool.