1. L C Jains parents Phool Chand Jain and Chameli Devi shortly after marriage, Delhi, c.1923. It was unusual for couples to be photographed , especially holding hands, an indication of the unconventional direction their lives would take. (Incidentally, this image has found a new life on indianmemoryproject.blogspot.com.)

2. LC Jain in Delhi, in 1945, a few years after he left his studies to become part of the Congress underground during the Quit India movement. He was a courier of messages, money, and occassionally bombs.

3. Kingsway Camp, Delhi, c.1947. It was one of the biggest refugee camps in Delhi, and where Jain, as a volunteer, learnt early lessons in Gandhian strategy.

4. Nehru inspects the site of the Faridabad township on the outskirts of the Delhi, c.1949. Jain was part of a handful of activists who were instrumental in turning a stretch of farmland into a settlement for refugees from the North West Frontier Province , built entirely on cooperative principles.

5. Jain with one of his mentors, KamaladeviChattopadhyaya, freedom fighter, feminist, founder of Indian Coopertaive Union, and handicrafts pioneer.

6. Indira Gandhi addressing her supporters outside her residence, c.1975, in an image that captures her isolation. Jain was an active member of the anti-Emergency mobilisation, a period he captures in a chapter titled Democracy Died at Midnight .

7. LC Jain with his wife, intellectual partner, and alter ego Devaki. Their romance is the epilogue of the book, called The Thirty Rupee Wedding.