Tuesday, 21 March 2017

RARE PICTURES YOU MAY BE SEEING FOR THE FIRST TIME (PART 1)

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Few of the rarest photos from India are Felice Beato’s photographs from Indian rebellion of 1857, which were possibly the first-ever photographic images of corpses.

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Royal treatment the British were subjected to by their Indian servants during the British Raj, in this case a pedicure.

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Zebra cart in 1930s Calcutta. This is a picture of a Zebra cart being used as a mode of transport in Calcutta in the 1930s.

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An Air India airhostess aiding a passenger on a Delhi-Bombay flight in 1946.

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A Locomotive Railway Engine on the line of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway which Passes through the Main Street of a Hill Village, 1880's.

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Two crew members of a Sherman tank of the Scinde Horse, part of the Indian 31st Armoured Division in Iraq, March 1944.

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Indian Young Nationalist Affixing a Boycott Sign, to a Foreign Cart in the Streets of Bombay (Mumbai) - 1930.

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A watch store in Lahore, then still a part of India, in 1946.

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Indian soldiers holding a Nazi flag which they had captured at Libyan Omar, December 1941.

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Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan and Sir Maurice Gwyer at Sinha Sadan after the Oxford University Convocation on 7th of August 1940.

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We see a portrait of India's first Test Cricket Team on its maiden tour to England in 1932.

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The uniform of the Indian Army soldiers in 1850.

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This image of Tagore and Einstein brings geniuses from worlds apart together.

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Tagore is greeted by Helen Keller.

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Subhash Chandra Bose with his most trusted friend and driver, Colonel Nizamuddin.



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