Uttar Pradesh

old town

Dilapidated and in shambles, but reeking of history and heritage from the past... Harking back to the days of the British Raj at Padrauna Zamindari in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, in this 1990's archival footage of a set of heritage structure…

Police and locals crowd in front of the house which has collapsed due to a tree falling on top of the house in Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. Relatives can be heard calling to the family members trapped inside the house.

Many lose their life after lightning strikes in several parts of Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh government has announced compensation for deceased. Lightning strikes are pure weather related incidents and clear acts of god, legally speaking.

highway

The streets and alleys of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh is filled with patrolling policemen before and after the abri Masjid Demolition in December 1992.

politics

The central motion brought by the BJP in the Parliament asking for the recall of Uttar Pradesh governor Mr. Romesh Bhandari has brought into sharp focus the differences in the Congress party.

highway · industry

Police and migrant workers on Delhi-Saharanpur Highway after the incident of a bus injures migrant workers marching on foot during the Corona Lockdown. Police are seen patrolling the highway stretch at Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.

livestock

This is good old fashioned desi technology at work - the chara katne ki machine from north India and the Uttar Pradesh cow belt! One person manually winds the fly wheel while the other adds fodder that needs chopping, onto the flying runnin…

monsoon · politics

Locals take out a rally in a village which is flooded in the monsoons in Uttar Pradesh. Houses in the village are almost submerged in the water with the smaller shacks succumbing to the floodwater.

river · festival

'Har Har Mahadev' chants from orange-clad ascetics and sadhus if the Hindu religion at one of the largest festivals in North India.

livestock · bazaar

A weekly buffalo market is held here in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, India. Visit for the fun of watching buffaloes being bought and sold or to sell your own pet bovine! Come one, come all, to north India's largest buffalo market...

festival · ceremony

Barsana Lathmar Holi crowd in Uttar Pradesh cow belt of India: Everyone is an orange-saffron-yellow! Women all prepared and excited to play Lathmar Holi at Barsana, waiting with canes and sticks in hand This footage captures the electrifyin…

river · ceremony

Garhmukethwar ghat evening aarti prayers at Garh Ganga on the Ganges river in Uttar Pradesh Garhmukteshwar Ganga Ghat beyond Meerut is the closest one gets to the Ganges river when coming from Delhi, for Ganga darshan or asthi visarjan, as…

temple

Ayodhya - The full story from the 1990's and centered around Babri Masjid and the Ramjanmabhoomi incident in Uttar Pradesh. A lock was placed on the Ayodhya temple.

livestock

Uttar Pradesh cow belt Holi central festive fervour as people celebrate holi in Barsana town.

aerial

Police in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh use drone cameras to surveil on citizens during the Corona Pandemic. Police officials are seen with a person flying a drone over the buildings in the city.

temple

The dispute is about a plot of land in the city of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. This particular site is considered among the Hindus to be the birthplace of Lord Rama, but it also located the Babri Masjid.

village · wildlife

In an unfortunate incident at a village in Uttar Pradesh, a leopard is trashed by villagers after it ventured into their village area. The carcass is carried back to a house and displayed on a cot with its limbs tied.

monsoon

Floods have ravaged Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh during the monsoons. Houses and the entire landscape submerged in the murky water. Men at the police station share their ordeal in front of the camera.

river · farmland

Fields of young wheat grain crop in Uttar Pradesh state, in early winter, with water coming in from a canal from the Yamuna river, so irrigation is excellent here.

village · livestock

It is morning in Amroha. A new day is starting and the pulse of life within the village can be felt. It is time to bring the livestock outside and head into the fields. No matter your age or gender, you have a role within the community.

lake · wildlife

A Little Cormorant with shiny plumage gives its feathers a sunbath among tall reeds and water at Haiderpur Wetland in Uttar Pradesh.

river · highway

Trucks cross the Ganges river on the extensive bridge over the Ganges barrage. Ganga barrage, Garhmukteshwar and milk being boiled to make mithai or Indian sweets in Bijnor.

village · river

A rural village fair ground with an expansive spread of kids' and grown-up's entertainment in Uttar Pradesh and the town of birth of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in UP.