Poulomi Basu’s Photos of Women Serving the Border Security Patrol

On India’s Border, a Changing of the Guards

In 2009, Poulomi Basu learned that India was recruiting women for its patrol of the border with Pakistan. Inspired, she followed this new paramilitary force through training and after, resulting in the project, “To Conquer Her Land.”

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/on-indias-border-a-changing-of-the-guards/

Photographer Poulomi Basu said she got the idea after reading a newspaper article in 2009: India for the first time was recruiting women to serve in its Border Security Patrol, training them to police the country’s long and dangerous boundary with its archenemy, Pakistan.