Looking for meet-up and advice about India

I am a photographer, and planning to document Northern India. During our stay in India, I will be making a photography series that focuses on the local Indian life. To do this, I would like to meet up with locals who are willing to hang out with us, and get us in contact with the right people for documenting these photographs.

I am traveling through northern India from June 26th till July 25th. Two friends will accompany me along the way.

I already have planned the trip, but I would like some advice from people who live in these regions:

27th of June till 29th of June: Delhi

• In Delhi I would like to see the Old Delhi, document street life and maybe see a procession or a fair, if there is an opportunity. --- Then we will take the train to Haridwar, and the bus to Rishikesh

29th of June till 3rd of July: Rishikesh (3 days)

• Here we would like to experience the street life and visit Jim Corbett national park --- Sleeper Train from Haridwar to Varanasi

3 to 6 July: Varanasi (4days)

• Things that I'd certainly like to do: participate in a private cremation ceremony and document the whole happening, meet Aghori and Sadhu to make portraits --- Sleeper train to Agra

7 to 9 July: Agra (2 days)

--- train to Jaipur

9 to 12 July: Jaipur (4days)

• In Rajahstan is where I'd like to spend the most amount of time, because I would like to document the following things: - Meet and get familiar with a camel herder, so I can make portraits and documentary photographs - Meet Cobra gypsies and also get familiar with them --- Go to Pushkar by car or camel/horseback if possible

13 to 16 July: Pushkar (4days)

--- Go to Jodhpur also by car/horseback if possible

17 to 21 July: Jodhpur (4days)

--- Take the sleeper train to New Delhi

22 to 25 July: New Delhi until we leave

Please, let me know your thoughts on this trip, and time management. Also if you know of other interesting things, which are not touristy but really typical local, let me know, I'd love to do that.