Polo Anyone?
May 26, 2016
Members of a British army polo team in Hyderabad, India Early 1900s
Tag: India
Old Footage of India.
May 26, 2016
Film footage of Rajputana, India in 1932 (despite the video saying 1906)
Beast No More.
February 15, 2016
Here we see a rare photograph of Queen Elizabeth and Maharani Gayatri Devi posing for a picture after a tiger hunt, the picture must be late fifties as Prince Charles seems to be a teenager here.
Addressing Herr Hitler.
February 15, 2016
In 1939 just before the outbreak of war Ghandi sent Adolf Hitler this letter to try and reason with him, pleading him to stop reducing humanity to a ‘savage state’ as we know it didn’t work.
The Taj Mahal
February 15, 2016
The earliest known photograph of the Taj Mahal taken by Dr. John Murray of East India Company in the 1850s.
Female Indian Prisoners.
February 15, 2016
Here we see a rare picture of female prisoners being held in the infamous Cellular Jail in the Andaman Islands circa 1860.
Zebra And A Cart!
February 15, 2016
This is a brilliant picture of a Zebra cart being used as a mode of transport in Calcutta in the 1930s, who needs horses over rated some would say.
Schoolboys At Amritsar.
January 13, 2016
India of tomorrow-handsome schoolboys of Amritsar at the Golden Temple beside the Holy Tank.
Holy Men.
January 13, 2016
Hindu Fakirs or Holy men by the Ganges, Benares, India in 1908.
Crossing That River.
January 13, 2016
inflating Bullock skin boats for crossing the swift Himalayan River Sutlej, North India in 1903.
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