An Scrapbook of Old & Rare Pictures of The India.n History

1. An Old & Rare
Pictures of
Indian History

2. The daughter of an Indian
maharajah seated on a panther
she shot, sometime during 1920s

3. A British man gets a pedicure from
an Indian servant

4. The Grand Trunk Road , built by
Sher Shah Suri, was the main
trade route from Calcutta to Kabul

5. A group of Dancing or nautch girls
began performing with their
elaborate costumes and jewelry.

6. Women gather at a party in
Mumbai ( Bombay ) in 1910.

7. A rare view of the President's
palace and the Parliament
building in New Delhi .

8. A group from Vaishnava, a sect
founded by a Hindu mystic. His
followers are called Gosvamimaharajahs.

9. Swami Vivekanand at the
Parliament of Religions held in
Chicago in 1893

10. An aerial view of Jama Masjid
mosque in Delhi , built between
1650 and 1658.

11. The Imperial Airways 'Hanno'
Hadley Page passenger airplane
carries the England to India air
mail, stopping in Sharjah to refuel.

12. View of Parrys Corner,Chennai.

13. A British player accidentally falls
from horse during playing
polo,Imphal

14. A rare photo of Calcutta in 1835.

15. In India first railway was built between
Mumbai and Thane in 1852 and the first
passenger train ran between the two
stations, covering a distance of 34 km, on
April 16, 1853.

16. British atrocities india in 1857

17. Mangal Pandey's
execution order.

18. Roaster of arrivals/identured
labour in S.Africa who were
identified by their numbers

19. A Scene from movie Raja
Harishchandra, which premiered at
Bombay's Coronation Theatre on
May 3 1913, was the country's first
ever feature film.

20. Subhash Chandra Bose in Tokyo ... 1936

21. Ghandhiji Addressing people

22. Last Viceroy of Independent India Lord
Mountbatten salutes the Indian national flag
hosted at India Gate as Lady Edwina (second
right) and India's first prime minister
Jawaharlal Nehru (right) looks on, during
Independence Day celebrations, in New Delhi.

23. TRAIN TO PAKISTAN ; India 1947. Trains
packed with refugees - Hindus and Sikhs
headed for India , and Muslims headed for
Pakistan - were convenient targets for
gangs of killers on both sides of the border.

24. A Library being divided at the time of partition.
Heart trembles to see this sight and it is tough to
imagine the state of the nation at the moment
when people needed to hold hands

25. 1948: The news of Gandhi's assassination
hits the streets. A stunned crowd gathers
in Calcutta.

26. 1948: Crowds
in New Delhi
wait
for a glimpse
of
Gandhi's
funeral
procession.

29. A Country With A Population With 1.237 Billions

31. &
A Scrapbook of
Advika Dwivedi
A Mayoorite