Tunnel

Long before and during 1857, India's tribal communities mounted some of the fiercest resistance against colonial expansion. This gallery recovers those stories — the Santhal hul of 1855, the Bhil rebellions of central India, the Gond uprisings of the Deccan — and shows how they fed into the broader fire of 1857.

Artifacts, oral histories and field recordings sit alongside photographs of the landscapes where these revolts unfolded.