The mystery of an iconic Partition photograph
October 12, 2016 10:13
On 18 August 1947, the American magazine Lifecarried a photograph of BS Kesavan, who would soon become the first national librarian of newly independent India.
Captured by the photojournalist David Douglas Duncan, the image shows Kesavan, a young man with his hand buried in his hair, sitting at a table between two large stacks of books. The stack on the left is topped by a white placard that says "PAKISTAN,' while one atop the other says "INDIA.' The caption reads, "In the Imperial Secretariat Library, a curator tries to divide a 150,000-volume collection into equal parts for each new state.' In August of 1997, Time magazine'"by then Life's parent publication'"reprinted the image in a commemorative issue for the fiftieth anniversary of Indian independence.
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Captured by the photojournalist David Douglas Duncan, the image shows Kesavan, a young man with his hand buried in his hair, sitting at a table between two large stacks of books. The stack on the left is topped by a white placard that says "PAKISTAN,' while one atop the other says "INDIA.' The caption reads, "In the Imperial Secretariat Library, a curator tries to divide a 150,000-volume collection into equal parts for each new state.' In August of 1997, Time magazine'"by then Life's parent publication'"reprinted the image in a commemorative issue for the fiftieth anniversary of Indian independence.
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