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I don’t know whether the Madras Photographic Society has anything to do with the recently-publicised Chennai Photo Biennales, the first last year and the next scheduled for 2018, but participant or not, it certainly deserves a bow for being the country’s first photographic society. Its founder was an Army doctor, Alexander Hunter. The Society was founded in 1857, shortly after Lord Canning arrived as Governor-General. Canning and Lady Canning, both photography enthusiasts, were responsible for creating the famed Government series, The People of India. Hunter had still earlier, in 1850, privately started the Madras School of Arts. The School, taken over by Government in 1852, moved from Popham’s Broadway to Poonamallee High Road. There, he and an eight-member committee revised the syllabus, offering two streams, Industrial and Artistic. Hunter was put in charge of the institution, renamed the Government School of Industrial Arts, in 1855. It was the first formal school of Art in the country. In it, Hunter introduced Photography.

Hunter retired in 1868, to be succeeded by Robert Chisholm. No mean photographer, Hunter encouraged the School, it is now the Government College of Arts and Crafts to build up a photographic collection. Unfortunately, little is left of his work, especially the monuments of South India captured by Government photographer Linnaeus Tripe and his assistant C Iyahsawmi. Hunter himself did a series of pictures of the ‘Seven Pagodas’ (Mahabalipuram) and worked with his wards on photographs of the five hill tribes of the Nilgiris. It was at a prize-giving of the School that Hunter urged the Governor to provide it more suitable premises. They came up on the PH Road site in Chisholm’s time and to his design — and remain there.

Who is credited for creating the famous ‘People of India’ photography series?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The existence of

P : can be traced back to

Q : mammals on the earth

R : at least the Triassic time

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

I had (a few) eggs in the fridge, so we need to go to the market to buy them.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order

Due to poor organic matter

P-­in soil is below the required
Q­-incorporation, organic carbon
R­-level in most parts of India

Correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

The main failings were of conception and a political willingness to settle _________ easy options. _______________ the expansive declarationsof the need "to maintain effective security of all nuclear materials, _______________ includes nuclear materials used in nuclear weapons”, thesummits narrowed their _______________ to civilian holdings __________________ non­nuclear weapon states.

The main failings were of conception and a political willingness to settle _________ easy options.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Today, less privileged white
P- Americans are considered to be
Q- and pathologists predominates
R- in crisis, and the language of sociologists

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

There was a second part

P-­are ambivalent about
Q­-many people
R­-of her decision which

Choose the word that best defines the given phrase

‘A written account of the life of an individual’