Rare & Old Photos of India - Interesting & thought provoking!!

[Chronos]

@levina @nair @kurup

remember EMS namboodiripad?

 

[Levina]

@levina @nair @kurup

remember EMS namboodiripad?

Yeah EMS...our first Chief minister...first a socialist and then a communist.I guess he lost just once in public elections.A lil controversial figure who aired China's view during 1962.






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Not sure if any member has posted this pic before me on this thread...
Thats a British officer getting a manicure done by his "Indian servant".

 

[Levina]

The Prince and H.H the Begum of Bhopal as they proceeded to the Durbar Hall at Sadar Manzil Palace, India, 1922

Volunteers: When the call came, two million Indians, such as those of the 15th India Corps, joined the Second World War - the largest volunteer force in history

Pre independence pic...unknown location...but this room is full of ladies

One of the earliest cars to arrive in India, a Gobron-Brillie from 1903 owned by Lord Wolverton.

 

[HRK]

Chinese PM Zhou En-lai and Jawaharlal Nehru celebrating New Year

 

[Gibbs]

Nice thread @DRAY, Shows that Indian heritage includes a very important aspect of it's colonial heritage. As it does for most of the region

Could be more worthy if pics of Bollywood or recent Cricketers are avoided.. Takes the gloss away

 

[HRK]

Mehdi Hassan with Lata Mangeshkar

 

[nair]

@levina @nair @kurup

remember EMS namboodiripad?

Well He was the first elected communist chief minister...... I remember the day when he died...... it was in 98 or 99, The entire kerala was shut.......

 

[ExtraOdinary]

1989 - Sonia Gandhi with Asif Ali Zardari in Moscow

I always wonder if Netaji had an inkling about the kind of monsters he was meeting with in Germany , maybe enemy's enemy is not always a friend

Bose with Heinrich Himmler, 1943

@DRAY @scorpionx @nair @levina @Skull and Bones @arp2041 @BDforever and others................

 

[arp2041]

I always wonder if Netaji had an inkling about the kind of monsters he was meeting with in Germany

Ofcourse he had, but the only thing in his MIND was "FREEDOM OF INDIA".

He once said, for the Freedom of My Nation, I am ready to Shake Hands EVEN with a DEVIL.

 

[ExtraOdinary]

U.S.S.R Gifts Diesel Tractor to India, 1955

 

[Levina]

1989 - Sonia Gandhi with Asif Ali Zardari in Moscow

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I always wonder if Netaji had an inkling about the kind of monsters he was meeting with in Germany , maybe enemy's enemy is not always a friend

Bose with Heinrich Himmler, 1943

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@DRAY @scorpionx @nair @levina @Skull and Bones @arp2041 @BDforever and others................

Some times I wonder which version of history should I believe???
Churchill and Co. were no angels, and Churchill famously said.....

 

[ExtraOdinary]

A distraught boy sits on the walls of a refugee camp in Delhi during the Partition of India, 1947

Indian Regiments and Cavalry at River Tigris in IRAQ, 1918

 

[arp2041]

Some times I wonder which version of history should I believe???
Churchill and Co. were no angels, and Churchill famously said.....
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& Hitler said that "Geography would be Kind to me for I intend to CHANGE it!!"

 

[ExtraOdinary]

River Ganges and Architectures in Benares (Varanasi) - c1890's

(nothing much seems to have changed, if only it has become dirtier, lets hope feku will do something about it)

 

[Levina]

& Hitler said that "Geography would be Kind to me for I intend to CHANGE it!!"

And Nehru said secularology would be kind to me for I intend to implement it......


Oye I am no match for your talent when it comes to giving crisp answers and shayaari.
I give up...