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Here we see two Indian sisters selling Flags in London to raise money for Indian soldiers fighting in the first world war.

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Women Fruit Sellers in Bombay (Mumbai), India in 1946.

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A young French boy introduces himself to Indian soldiers who had just arrived in France to fight in the first world war, Marseilles 30 September 1914.

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A postcard documenting the movement of Indian soldiers.

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Sir Pertab Singh, the Regent of Jodhpur, with two Indian officers. A favourite of Queen Victoria, the 70-year-old Sir Pertab was said to have threatened to sit at the doorstep of the viceroy in protest if not allowed to serve in the war. He served in Europe in 1914-1915 and then…

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A soldier, unable to write, gives his thumb-impression on the pay-book. At the time, the province of Punjab, which contributed more than half the total number of combatants, had a literacy rate of only 5%. Many of the men, however, knew how to sign their names, and a handful could write…

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Riverside scene with bathers, looking north from Chatulal’s Ghat towards Ram Chandra Goenka’s Zenana (ladies) ghat, Kolkata, taken about one hundred years ago.

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Group gathered around sweet seller on the Maidan, Kolkata. The group includes non Bengalis, possibly visiting for a festival, taken around one hundred years ago.

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Group of women and children, probably on the Maidan, Kolkata. The group may be pilgrims from outside Bengal, taken about one hundred years ago.

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Riverbank with bathers and ship, probably from Chandpal Ghat, Kolkata. Riverside scene with bathers, Chandpal Ghat, Kolkata. Bathers reached the river through tunnels under the railway line, both pictures taken around one hundred years ago and could possibly be the same scene but from two different angles.