Figure 1: Lily, from the series “Delhi: Communities of Belonging,” 2016 More

Figure 2: DART community centre in Delhi, which is no longer active. From the artist’s archive, circa 2000. (She was showing her palms covered with his name, above which a heart with an arrow was cutting across, to a friend. She was amused, but also content.) More

Figure 6: Lily at home, from the series “Delhi: Communities of Belonging,” 2016 More

Figure 7: Interiors, Delhi. From the artist’s archive, 2018 More

Figure 8: Interiors, Delhi. From the artist’s archive, 2018 More

Figure 10: From the series “Garden of Eros,” Delhi. 2016 (a space away from home and the NGO; to pause, to think, to meet. Where I don’t have to be an either/or category, where their rules don’t apply, where I have liberty to create my own role, my own identity, my own life. What More

Utsa Hazarika, Looking Away series: Setting the Stage, Delhi Police , May 16, 2014 © Utsa Hazarika. More

Utsa Hazarika, Looking Away series: Delhi Police, Off Duty , May 16, 2014 © Utsa Hazarika. More

Homai Vyarawalla, 'A Visiting Troupe of Dancers at the Marina Hotel', Delhi, 1947, Courtesy of the Alkazi Collection of Photography. Published in India in Focus: Camera Chronicles of Homai Vyarawalla , by Sabeena Gadihoke, 2010. More

Gauri Gill, Typing class at Khalsa Diwan, New Delhi , What Remains. More

Gauri Gill, Kabuli mobile sellers, New Delhi , What Remains. More

Unknown artist, Portrait of a Young Prince , 19 th century, watercolor on paper, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India, Acc. No. 14759, Courtesy National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. More

Gauri Gill, ‘Ismat, Barmer’, from the series Notes from the Desert , 1999-2010. Silver gelatin photograph, size variable. Courtesy the artist and Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi. More

Gauri Gill, ‘Urma and Nimli, Lunkaransar, from the series Notes from the Desert , 1999-2010. Silver gelatin photograph, size variable. Courtesy the artist and Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi. More

Gauri Gill, ‘Ghulam Rasool, Barmer’, from the series Notes from the Desert , 1999-2010. Silver gelatin photograph, size variable. Courtesy the artist and Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi. More

Fig. 14: A Picture spread titled “The Passing of a Drudge” from the Illustrated Weekly , featuring students from Lady Irwin College, Delhi, 1946. Courtesy the Homai Vyarawalla Archive / Alkazi Collection of Photography More