New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- A black-and-white image on display features a sea of people. The facade of the Victoria Terminus stands witness to this procession in 1930 by the merchants of Bombay against the repressive policy of the British Government. Confronted by a squadron of 300 police officers, the demonstrators squatted on the road till 8 pm until the police withdrew to avoid a confrontation. In another image, you can see a surging crowd climbing up the Fitzgerald Fountain to get a better view of the Parsi Nationalist Procession. These images, on showcase as part of Disobedient Subjects: Bombay (1930-31), "document a visual history of radical collective disobedience, resistance and revolution centered on the power of the photograph".

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