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A young AR Rahman with Yesudas
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Actress Madhubala Photoshoot for LIFE Magazine
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WOW!!!!!

A rare photo of APJ Abdul Kalam from his College Days
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Amitabh Bachchan and his Family – 1970
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Bombay in 1950
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A Rare picture of First President of India Dr. Rajender Prasad
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Rolls Royce Depot – Bombay
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Phoolan Devi – the Bandit Queen of India in the early 1980
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The first Indian Cricket team tour to England – 1886
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Death of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa with a young Vivekananda ( 4th from left ) Mourning
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Rabindranath Tagore With Sir Maurice Gwyer and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan at Sinha Sadan after the Oxford University Convocation on 7 August 1940
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Young Sachin Tendulkar & Vinod Kambli
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Pranab Mukharjee three decade ago
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Opera house mg road in Bangalore – 1950’s
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Netaji Subash Candra Bose and parents
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Naval Tata, Ratan Tata and Noel Tata
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Mahatma Gandhi’s Last photo
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A Very rare photo of Nathuram Godse, who shot Mahathma Gandhi
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This was the last time when Netaji was caught by Britishers
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Straight shoulders, head held high, Netaji does look like a true leader.

Anna Hazare as an Army man
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mother teresa 18-years-old-photo

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Neta ji With Hitler..
 
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A rare photo Indian Cricketers Sachin, Sehwag and Zaheer partying & dancing.

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Chandrashekhar Azad dead body
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I first thought about not to share this photo of Chandrashekhar Azad, but then I thought to leave the choice to the viewers.

Indira Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin and Jawaharlal Nehru in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, 1953
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Death sentence judgement poster of bhagat singh, sukhdev, rajguru and others(1930)
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Indian Wrestler The Great Khali
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First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Nehru watching the snake charmer
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Dr. Ambedkar with family of some of his associates
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Kapil dev and Indira Gandhi
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Kapil Dev, Shah rukh and Sohail Khan playing football
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Miss Universe Sushmita Sen and Miss World Aishwarya Rai in the 90s
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A photograph depicting the marriage of HH Yuvaraja Sir Sri Kantirava Narasinharaja Wadiyar to HH Yuvrani Kempu Cheluvammanniyavaru Urs in Mysore in 1910
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Ooty in Tamil Nadu – 1880
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Prof. R Narasimhan, Architect of the First Digital Computer in India [Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Automatic Calculator-TIFRAC]
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An Extremely rare picture of Rabindranath Tagore & Albert Einstein together

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Randhir Kapoor, Raj Kapoor and Rekha (1970)
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Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli while studying in school
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Sarla Thakral was only 21 year old when she became the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license (1936)
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Satyagrahis Demostrating Against British Rule
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Secundrabagh, Lucknow, After the Slaughter of 2,000 Rebels, With the Skeletons Lying Around – 1858
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Shahrukh Khan and Gauri in their young age
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Sir CV Raman explaining raman effect
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Sir Mohinder Dhillon, The cockerel-fighter from Punjab who became one of Africa’s greatest cameramen, pictured on the deck of British Navy ship in Kenya, 1967
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Student of university of Madras (1948) – While studying late night, Students used to tie their hairs to a nail in the wall for keeping themselves awake.
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The First Freedom Struggle of India in 1857 – two men hanged by British
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Indian Cricket Team 1994 having a lighter moment in the dressing room
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A Rare picture at shooting spot of Yash Chopra, Anil Kapoor & Sridevi
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The late actress Zohra Sehgal at her young acting career
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Gabbar Singh on Glucose – D biscuit advertisement poster
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Zeenat Aman winning second runner up in the Miss India contest 1970
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Zeenat Aman in Air India Advertisement
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Subash Candhra Bose meeting with Hitler
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Swami Vivekananda and Narasimhacharya (standing) in America. This is one of the first pictures of Swami Vivekananda in America
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Jawaharlal Nehru meeting Albert Einstein at Princeton, USA, 1949
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MS Dhoni childhood photo
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Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor in a single photo
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Lady Mountbatten receives a farewell embrace from Governor-General of India C. Rjagopalachari, 1948
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I admit that I am a bit confused about this one!! :P

Flora Fountain,Bombay 1880
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Seetha Devi – Indian silent film acctress in 1925
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Aerial view of Maidan Kolkata 1870
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Finally Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in NCC during his childhood days
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India back then is more clean then what it is now!!!! Thx to plastic n electronic waste!!!!
 
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Golden Temple of Amritsar, Punjab – c1860′s
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kanchipuram temple ,India
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Rabindranath Tagore with Brahmacharyashrama boys – Santiniketan 1903
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Hooghly River Bank after the Cyclone – Calcutta (Kolkata) 1867
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Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai, India
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Andaman Tribals Fishing – Circa 1870
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Bridge in Srinagar – Kashmir
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The Taj Mahal, Agra
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The Harbor from the Yacht Club – Bombay
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People at the side of River Ganges – Benares (Varanasi)
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