Chapter 15 · The Archive

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Photographs in this chapter appear nowhere else in the archive. Captions describe only what can be established from the image and its published context; where the date or place is not known, it is not given. Select an image to view it at full size.

Set I

Official meetings

2 photographs

Sarbananda Sonowal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi stand side by side in front of national flags and wooden panelling — **15.1**With Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in front of national flags.

Eknath Shinde presents a bouquet of pink lilies to Sarbananda Sonowal in an office — **15.2**Receiving a bouquet from Eknath Shinde, then Chief Minister of Maharashtra (left). PIB reported a meeting between the two on 21 February 2023 on Sagarmala projects in Maharashtra.

Set II

Customs of welcome

2 photographs

A visitor drapes a red-and-white gamosa around Sarbananda Sonowal in a sitting room; an Assamese japi hangs on the wall between framed portraits — **15.3**Being welcomed with a gamosa. An Assamese japi, a traditional hat, hangs on the wall behind.

Sarbananda Sonowal embraces a smiling man wearing a white kurta and a purple stole in a corridor — **15.4**With a colleague who wears a purple stole, in a corridor.

The gamosa — a white cotton cloth with a red woven border — is offered in Assam as a mark of respect and welcome. It recurs throughout this archive.