VALLADOLID, SPAIN, January 24, 2011: Queen Sofia, accompanied by her sister, Princess Irene of Greece, will inaugurate ‘A Pictorial History of India’ at the Casa de la India in the city of Valladolid on January 27th. The exhibit consists of the unpublished photos of Kulwant Roy, a pioneer of Indian photojournalism, who painstakingly documented the events leading to the independence of India.
The images, captured between 1930 and the 1960s, highlight the pacifist movement and spiritual leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and other independence leaders such as Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel. The opening ceremony is timed to commemorate the sixty third anniversary of Gandhi’s death. The exhibit runs through March 11th.