India, Pakistan images from 1940 era

[daredevil]

From Life magazine

Air India Flight Attendants, India, 1946
Air India flight attendant Monica Gilbert (C) showing flight report to Sikh passenger during trip fr. Dehli to Bombay.

Karachi, Pakistan, 1947
Teacher addressing Pakistani male students in freshman English class where the girls are seated behind purdah wall in order to perserve their modesty at the Sind Moslem College.

Rawalpindi, West Punjab, Pakistan, 1947
Tribesmen & Soldiers Of Pakistan
Members of the newly-formed Pakistani Security Guard parade past troops of the regular Pakistani Army during review for Pakistan's Ldr. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who did not attend due to illness.

Delhi, India, 1946
Moslem worshippers kneeling while resting on their feet in the fourth prayer position in courtyard in front of Jami' Masjid, the largest mosque in India, on the day of Id-ul-Fitr, the most sacred day of Ramadan.

New Delhi, India, 1946
Portrait of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pres. of India's Moslem League, dressed in Western-style suit, in the study of his palacial home.

Sira, Mysore, India, 1946
Indian farmers driving plows pulled by their starving bullocks as they till land that is too dry to sow due to drought.

Karachi, Pakistan, 1947
100,000 Pakistani mulsims bowing down to Mecca as they form endless rows to pray to Allah during Baqr Id, the Festival of Sacrifice, at Idgah Maidan.

Lahore, India,1946
Young boy squatting in front of old military cannon built in 1781 in front of the Jubilee Museum & Technical Institute, Prince Albert Memorial Museum.

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

Wow Karachi didn't look like the concrete mess it is now. That skyline fits perfectly in Versailles.

 

[Imran Khan]

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karachi 14 august 1947

31 december 1947

Pictured during their important meeting w/the British Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, are these Indian leaders. (LTR) Sardar Baldev Singh; Acharya J.B. Kriplani, President of the Indian National Congress; Lord Melville; Pandit Nehru; Lord Ismay; Lord Mountbatten; Ali Jinnah; Liquat Ali Khan and Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, (back to camera). The meeting took place at the Viceroy's house. The partition of India into two separate governing states looms for the troubled land. --- 12 Jun 1947, New Delhi, India ---

Indian Leaders on arrival after an invitation by the British Government at Heathrow Airport in London. Left to right: Mohammed Ali Jinnah, President of the Indian Moslem League (with a cane); Sardar Baldev Singh (white turban), Defense Minister of the Government and Representative of the Sikhs, and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (extreame right), Vice President of the Indian Interim Government. --- 06 Dec 1946, London, England, UK --- 12/6/1946-London, England- --

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, leader Congress Party, meets with Mohammed Ali Jinnah, leader of the Muslim League, at Jinnah's home. --- 1946, Delhi, India ---

 

[Imran Khan]

The Indian leaders Mohammed Jinnah, Liaquat Ali Kahn, Sardar Baldev Singh and Pandit Nehru, during a reception given by the Indian High Commissioner at India House. --- December 1946, London, England, UK ---

Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979) (c) the Viceroy of India, and his wife (r) with other guests at a reception given for Muslim members of the Interim Government. --- 1947, Delhi, India ---

partetion days

 

[daredevil]

Some more from 1940 Era

Karachi, Pakistan, 1947
Pakistani members of the Sind Muslim Women's National Guard practicing combat w. bamboo lathi sticks traditionally used by the Indian police.

Rawalpindi, West Punjab, Pakistan, 1947
Members of the newly formed Pakistani Security Guard standing at attention during parade review for Pakistan's new leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah

Delhi, India, 1946
Indian servants standing in the magnificent empty throne room of British Viceroy, Lord Archibald Wavell's palace which will be more than figuratively vacant when the British soon withdraw & give India its independence.

India, 1947
Convoy of Sikhs migrating to East Punjab after the division of India

Delhi, India, 1946
Portrait of Abdul Ghani Khan, son of the so-called "Frontier Gandhi," clad in his native dress, chatting w. India's leading journalist Shiva Rao, at the Council House.

Lahore, Pakistan, 1947
Pakistani ******* gathered in front of the entrance to the great Badshahi Mosque.

New Delhi, India, 1948
Mourners climbing telephone pole to get view of funeral procession of assassinated Indian leader Mohandas K. Gandhi. Others have gathered atop an old Delhi shrine in the distance.

Delhi, India, 1946
Hindu leader Mohandas Gandhi (4R) walking w. (L-R) secretaries Shushila Pai & Raj Kumari, his son Manilal, his secy. Pyarelal, his son's wife, his granddaughter Sita, his nephew's wife Abha, & two unident. men, on his daily walk.

 

[Imran Khan]

Family in convoy of Sikhs carrying their belongings on their heads as they migrate to East Punjab after the division of India.

Mulsim man carrying his hookah in one hand while balancing pole holding his 5-yr. old son in convoy to West Punjab

Family in convoy of Sikhs carrying their belongings on their heads as they migrate to East Punjab after the division of India

 

[Imran Khan]

Pakistani students in freshman physics class at the Government College

First grade during class in village elementary school, nr. Lahore.

 

[third eye]

Thank you indeed for sharing these pics..wonderful.

 

[Captain03]

awesome pics
love the ones with the namazes and
the ones of jinnah

 

[khanz]

pakistan looked nicer in the 1940s.......

 

[Musalman]

Is this Badshahi Masjid Lahore or Jamia Masjid Dehli????? I am a lil confused