New Delhi, Feb. 12 -- The link between the rise of photography and anthropological studies in the 1850s is inextricable particularly in India. The camera became a means to explore, investigate and classify the diversity of the subcontinent. In fact, it was the People of India albums that launched the genre of anthropological photography. It was undertaken by the British government in the 1860s to document the races and tribes of India formally, some of which was to be presented at the International Exhibition in London in 1862. Among the photos that made their way there were those by Lt Willoughby Wallace Hooper of the 7th Madras Light Cavalry, who photographed tribes near "Ruttunpore and the Gonds, Chumars and Cowars". His images are sig...