Interior of the Sikandar Bagh after the slaughter of 2,000 rebels by the 93rd Highlanders and 4th Punjab Regiment, April 1858. Photo at the J Paul Getty Museum. Photo at the Brown University Library.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose With Adolf Hitler.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose With youth followers.
Chandra Shekhar Azad had vowed that he would never be arrested by the British police and kept his promise by using his last bullet to shoot himself in the head. He was Chandra Shekhar Azad, one of the most noteable Indian revolutionaries, who joined the revolution for the Indian independence when he was only 15 years old.
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar with Mrs. Savita Ambedkar.
Japanese Army personnel who blind-folded Indian POWs (Prisoner of War) and used them for target practice.
The first day Indian Constituent Assembly on 11th Dec, 1946. We see Sardar Patel in the foreground.
Air India employee manually updating the airline flight schedule in the year 1963.
Nobel laureate C V Raman with his spectrograph which helps by acting as a fingerprint in identifying molecules.
Country's first prime minister show off some of his swordsman skills circa 1955.
Panditji getting ready for a swim with his trademark Khadi topi still on.
Bombay office of Times of India celebrating its Diamond Jubilee in November, 1898.
Tata launch of Mercedes Benz Telco in 1954, in Mumbai.
The last Nizam of Hyderabad greets Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at the Begumpet airport after the success of Operation Polo.
Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara as he is greeted by the elderly in a village near Delhi, 1959.
Narayana Murthy in IIT Kanpur, 1969.
Mr. President Pranab Mukherjee, happily lighting a pipe in his younger days.
Letter written by Gandhi to Hitler pleading him to stop reducing humanity to a 'savage state'.
BEST tram service in Bombay in the year 1952. The services were eventually discontinued and made way for buses to become the sole transport carrier from BEST.
Congress campaigning in the country's first General Elections in January, 1952.
Peek into how the driver's license looked in India, 1943. This one belonged to a certain Pte O'Leary.
The first Indian lady pilot, Sarla Thakral, at 21 years of age.
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