30 Historic Pictures of Memorable India in Black & White

1. The Great Indian Fishing Boats in the 1880’s

2. A Horse Carriage in front of the Turkish Gate in Lucknow seen in the 1880’s

3. The mesmerizing Delhi Durbar Procession with Elephant and Cavalry of 1911

4. Our age old Brahmins in the Great Temple at Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India in 1928

5. First Woman Pilot of India, Sarla Thakral in the late 1930’s

6. The Great Gama pehlvan (wrestler, the lion of punjab, from Amritsar) and his brother Imam Baksh in a square off during an exhibition match in front of the Red Fort, New Delhi in the 1940s

7. Shaheed Bhagat Singh secretly photographed at Lahore during his first arrest in 1927

8. The brave Indian troops during a military training drill for the Assam – Indo-China War in 1962

9. Swami Vivekananda’s first capture as a Nomadic monk at Jaipur in 1888

10. Our beautiful Masjid-i Jahan-Numa or Jama Masjid of Delhi in the 1870’s

11. Strongest Pehelwans in Hyderabad, India during the 1870’s

12. The Burning Ghat of Varanasi i.e. the Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi (Benares) in the 1870’s

13. The mesmerizing Agra fort as seen in 1908

14. Our age old snake charmers in Agra, Near Taj Mahal in 1939

15. The pious and holy Golden Temple of Amritsar, Punjab in the 1860’s

16. A Tanga Wallah with his Carriage just before independence in 1945

17. The Busy Street Scene in Bombay (Mumbai) with no one with the time to halt the 1880’s

18. Saint Swami Vivekananda with other Religious Leaders at the Parliament of the World’s Religions – Chicago, USA in 1893

19. Indian farmers harvesting wheat in Uttar Pradesh on April 1952

20. A beautifully decorated Camel in the 1890’s

21. A Rickshaw Puller with a European Passenger captured in Calcutta

22. Prayer time. A group of Sadhus in 1880

23. Revolutionary Udham Singh after assassinating Michael O’Dwyer in 1940

24. Train packed with refugees to Pakistan in 1947

25. Shahid Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev at their last rites

26. An unfortunate boy sitting on rock ledge above a refugee camp

27. Indian soldiers in 1965

28. A still from the first full-length Indian feature film: Raja Harishchandra

29. A still from the first Indian film to win the highest number of international awards (11 awards) including Cannes: Pather Panchali in black & white

30. Indian Village women drawing water from the well