70 Rare Photographs That Will Destroy Everything You Knew About The Past
These assorted photographs from India are sure going to take you on a nostalgic ride. These photographs are a mirror of the some happy, sad, surprising or some baffling moments from the rich past of India. These will genuinely stimulate your brain and inspire you to dig up the history books.
1. A 1950 Bombay
2. A 90s picture of Miss Universe Sushmita Sen and Miss World Aishwarya Rai
3. A rare photoshoot of Madhubala for the LIFE magazine
4. A 1970s photo of Amitabh Bacchan and family
5. A rare picture of President of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad
6. A 1980s Picture of The Bandit Queen- Phoolan Devi
7. Mourning of death of Ramkrishna Paramhansa with young Vivekananda (4th from left)
8. Young Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli
9. 1950s Opera House on MG road in Bangalore
10. Naval Tata, Ratan Tata and Noel Tata
11. A very rare photograph of Nathuram Godse, who shot Mahatma Gandhi
12. Anna Hazare when he was in the army
13. The dead body of Chandra Shekhar Azad
14. 1930 poster for declaring the death sentence judgement of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru and their companions
15. A rare photograph of Nehru and the First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy watching a snake charmer
16. Indira Gandhi with Kapil Dev
17. 1880 Ooty, Tamil Nadu
18. Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein
19. A rare school picture of Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli
20. Rarest of rare Satyagrahis’ picture demonstrating against the British Raj
21. A young Shahrukh Khan with Gauri Khan
22. Pictured on the deck of British Navy in Kenya, 1967, is this Cockerel -Fighter, Sir Mohinder Dhillon from Pujab, who was also one of Africa’s greatest cameramen
23. Two Indian men being hanged by British during the First Freedom Struggle of India in 1857
24. Anil Kapoor, Sridevi and Yash Chopra relaxing at a shooting spot
25. A Glucose-D biscuits ad poster featuring Amzad Khan aka Gabbar Singh
26. An Air India advertisement with Zeenat Aman as their poster girl
27. One of the first pictures of Vivekananda in America with Narsimhacharya (standing) alongside himself at the desk
28. M. S. Dhoni when he was still at school
29. The Governor General of India, C. Rajgopalchari, giving Lady Mountbatten a farewell embrace, 1948
30. A silent movie actress- Seetha Devi, in 1925
31. The Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, as a NCC cadet in his childhood days
32. Young A. R. Rehman with Yesudas in a studio
33. A rare picture of young A. P. J. Abdul Kalam from his college days
34. The Rolls Royce Depot in Bombay
35. The first Indian cricket team tour to England, in 1886
36. Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan and Sir Maurice Gwyer at Sinha Sadan after the Oxford University Convocation on 7th of August 1940
37. A rare photograph of our President Pranab Mukherjee some thirty years back
38. Subhash Chandrqa Bose with parents
39. The last photograph of Mahatma Gandhi
40. The last successful arrest of Subhash Chandra Bose by the Britishers
41. A rare photograph of Indian cricketers, Sachin, Sehwag and Zaheer, having a gala time partying
42. Indira Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Charlie Chaplin at Bürgenstock, Switzerland, 1953
43. A younger Indian wrestler, The Great Khali
44. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar with family of some of his associates
45. The marriage of HH Yuvaraja Sir Sri Kantirava Narasinharaja Wadiyar to HH Yuvrani Kempu Cheluvammanniyavaru Urs in Mysore, 1910
46. Prof. R Narasimhan, architect of the first digital computer in India (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Automatic Calculator-TIFRAC)
47. Randhir Kapoor and Rekha with RajKapoor in 1970
48. A picture showing the first Indian woman to become a pilot, Sarala Thakral. She was just 21 years old then.
49. Secundrabad, in the year 1858, after the slaughter of 2000 rebels, with numerous skeletons scattered all around
50. Sir C. V. Raman explaining the Raman’s Effect
51. A student at the University of Madras in 1948, where they usually tied their hair to a nail to keep from falling asleep while studying
52. The Indian cricket team enjoying themselves in the dressing room
53. Lt. Zohra Sehgal in her younger days of acting career
54. Zeenat Aman in 1970 when she won the second runner up in the Miss India Contest
55. A rare photo of Subhash Chandra Bose meeting with Hitler
56. Jawaharlal Nehru Meeting Albert Einstein At Princeton, USA, 1949
57. Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor together in one picture
58. Flora Fountain in Bombay, 1880
59. Aerial view of Maidan, Kolkata in 1870
60. Kapil Dev, Sharukh Khan and Sohail Khan enjoying a game of football
61. Barak Obama with his high school football team.
62. Bill Gates caught for driving without a licence in 1977
63. Queen Elizabeth posing during World War 2 service
64. Osama bin laden in 1970’s. From the right second last in green shirt.
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65. Osama Bin laden after Judo practice
66. Steve Jobs discussing future of computers with Bill Gates in 1991
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67. First Modern Olympics runners held in Athens, Greece – 1896
68. Beatles lat concert in London at rooftop – 1969
69. Construction of Eiffel Tower in 1880
70. Early sketch of the famous Mickey Mouse
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