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Various Photographs of Jagannath Temple in Puri, Orissa - 19th Century
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Bollywood Hindi Movie Record Covers
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Hindi Movie Actress Begum Para Outdoor Photoshoot in 1951
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Still Photographs from Hindi Movie Maa (Dharmendra, Hema Malini and Nirupa Roy) - 1976
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Girls Auditioning (Screen Test) for Hindi Movie - Kardar Productions 1951
Photographs of Hindi movie director A R Kardar of Kardar Productions taking screen test of new girls for his movie in 1951. A R Kardar (Abdul Rashid Kardar) was director of famous movies like Shahjehan (1946), Dillagi (1949), Dulari (1949), Dil Diya Dard Liya (1966) etc. These photographs were taken by James Burke for Life Magazine.View all photographs
Various Vintage Photographs of Indian Nautch (Dancing) Girls
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Portrait of a Nutch Girl - Bombay c1920-30's
Nutch Girls and Musician - India c1875
Muslim Nutch Girl - Jaipur, India
Delhi Durbar of 1903
The durbar was held to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra as Emperor and Empress of India. The two full weeks of festivities were devised in meticulous detail by Lord Curzon. It was a dazzling display of pomp, power and split second timing. Neither the earlier Delhi Durbar of 1877, nor the later Durbar held there in 1911, could match the pagentry of Lord Curzon’s 1903 festivities.View all photographs
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Photographs of Kashmir from 1964
Beautiful Photographs taken by Life magazine photographer James Burke.Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
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Bengal famine of 1943
A Photographic History
The Bengal famine of 1943 occurred in undivided Bengal (now independent Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal) in 1943. It is estimated that over three million people died from starvation, malnutrition and related illnesses during the famine.Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
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Times of India office in Bombay (Mumbai) November 1898
The Times of India is the world's largest selling English-language daily newspaper. It is the most widely read English newspaper in India.These photographs were taken on the occasion of the newspaper's Diamond Jubilee (60 years) in November 1898.View all photographs
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The Planting & Manufacture of Indigo in India - Allahabad, 1877
Indigo planting in Bengal started around 1777. Indigo planting became more and more commercially profitable due to the demand for blue dye in Europe. It was introduced in large parts of eastern India. The indigo planters mercilessly pursued the peasants to plant indigo instead of food crops.View all photographs
Madhubala in Her Room - Photographed by James Burke for Life magazine in 1951
Madhubala (1933 - 1969) was one of the great and talented Hindi movie actresses of 1950's-60's. She acted in many successful and classic Hindi movies.View all photographs
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Calcutta Communal Riot or Great Calcutta Killings - August 1946
Direct Action Day (16 August 1946), also known as the Great Calcutta Killing, was a day of widespread riot and manslaughter in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal province of British India.View All Photos
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Mass migration during independence of India in 1947
In the aftermath of partition, a huge population exchange occurred between the two newly-formed states (India and Pakistan). About 14.5 million people crossed the borders and faced extreme hardship, hunger and death.Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13
Elephants in Sonepur Cattle Fair in Bihar 1952
The Sonepur Cattle Fair is held on Kartik Poornima (the full moon day) in the month of November in Sonepur, Bihar, on the confluence of river Ganges and Gandak. Till date, it is the biggest cattle fair of Asia and stretches on from fifteen days to one month. It has its origins during ancient times.Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
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Vintage Photographs of Calcutta (Kolkata) 1903
This is a remarkable set of photographs probably taken by an English gentleman Pandy (1875 - 1951) when he was posted to Calcutta, India. He was a merchant for Ralli Brothers, a famous British Greek merchant company based in Manchester. The set captures the unique atmosphere of imperial rule in the British Raj.Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7
India in Second World War
India, officially the Indian Empire, declared war on Germany in September 1939. The Provinces of India (which included most of modern-day India and the present day Bangladesh, Pakistan and Myanmar), being imperial colonies of the United Kingdom, were by default a part of the Allies of World War II. Several Indian princely states provided large donations to the Allies to combat the threat of Nazism and Fascism.Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
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Vintage Photographs of Bombay (Mumbai) - Early 20th Century
Mumbai (Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, most populous metropolitan area in India, and the eighth most populous city in the world, with an estimated city population of 18.4 million and metropolitan area population of 20.7 million as of 2011.View all photographs
People and their Professions in Lahore - British India, 1946
Lahore is the capital city of the Punjab province of current Pakistan and the second largest metropolitan area in Pakistan. It is the largest native Punjabi-populated city in the world and an important historical center in South Asia.View all photographs
Benares (Varanasi) Ghats Photographed from River Ganges - 1905
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Queen Elizabeth II during her tour of the Indian subcontinent in 1961
Elizabeth II is the Queen of 16 of the 53 member states in the Commonwealth of Nations. She is Head of the Commonwealth and Supreme Governor of the Church of England.View all photographs
Indian Village Life - 1962
Various photographs of Indian village, people and their activities.View all photographs
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First Lok Sabha General Election Scenes - Delhi, January 1952
The Indian general election of 1951–52 elected the first Lok Sabha since India became independent in August 1947. Until this point, the Indian Constituent Assembly had served as an interim legislature. The Indian National Congress (INC) won a landslide victory, winning 364 of the 489 seats. Jawaharlal Nehru became the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the country.Part 1 Part 2
