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Vyarawalla, Homai

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Personal name headingVyarawalla, Homai
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Variant(s)Dalda 13
Found inCamera chronicles of Homai Vyarawalla, 2006: t.p. (Homai Vyarawalla; India's first woman press photographer, b. 1913, in Navsari, Gujarat)
New York times WWW site, Jan. 30, 2012 (in obituary published Jan. 28: Homai Vyarawalla; b. Dec. 9, 1913, Navsari, Gujarat; d. Jan. 15, Vadodara, aged 98; photojournalist celebrated in India for chronicling the country's march toward independence and capturing enduring images of world figures like Mohandas K. Gandhi, Ho Chi Minh, and American presidents of the mid-20th century; to many Indians she was known as Dalda 13, a coinage derived from her license plate number, DLD-13)