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continued to do so after the family's return to India. These works spanned Paris, Budapest, Shimla, and Lahore, and presented a view into an aristocratic-bourgeois life across continents. His works were noted to have presented his family and himself as a "modern proto-postcolonial subject". His photographs have been posthumously exhibited in Canada, France, Spain, and UK, in addition to India.
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Gil experimented with various toning methods and left behind over 3,000 prints and negatives, including over 80 self-portraits, chronicling life across Europe and India in the early part of the twentieth century. Gil documented the family's life in Europe extensively through his photography and
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