Late in August 1939, there took place a strike in a small iron foundry in Jamshedpur, the premiere steel city of colonial India.
Men of the Chakhesang tribe of Nagaland aid their wives during delivery of the newborn. Most men in the picture-postcard village of Chizami in Phek district believe it is shameful to depend on a neighbour's help when such a momentous event is taking place in their family.