Tweet If you are not new to my Blog you must have seen my Post Rare Pictures - Before Independence so, in the continuity of that post i have collected some more rare Pictures just before or after Independence which i am gonna post today here. This time around the pictures are particularly from northern India. Black and White Pictures fascinates me a lot , they give you an insight to the era that has gone. All the pictures i have got from Google Images ,time and place of all the pictures could not be confirmed.
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| India Gate If you have visited India Gate you could easily see the difference in terrain in this pic,you have lots of trees and greenery there now also one can see North Block and South Block in background. |
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| Qutub Minar.1858 |
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| Kashmere Gate,1895 All i know about Kashmere Gate is that we have ISBT(Inter State Bus Terminus) there, have someone seen the Gate there still ? |
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| Jama Masjid |
At present if you visit Jama Masjid and area around it you will fight to get a foothold. Sometime I wonder how its gonna be if we could go back to past and visit all the places that are very crowded today.
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| Connaught Place Aerial View Below When i first saw this Pictures i could not understand how Connaught Place is so close to Rashtrapati Bhawan and Parliament House and that too both are in opposite direction[Connaught Place should be somewhere Behind Parliament House but instead its in front of this pic] then carefully studying this pic i came to know that this pic is combination of two pics the above one is of Rashtrapati Bhawan, North Block,South Block and Parliament house and the Below one is of Connaught place [when it was being constructed]. |
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| Mahatma Gandhi Here you could see Mahatma Gandhi being Welcomed by Indian Army Personnel at Harijan Colony, Delhi,in 1946.  Jawahar Lal Nehru Jawahar Lal Nehru addresse press just before Independence in Delhi in 1947 .  Mohd. Ali Jinnah , Allahabad Mohd. Ali Jinnah sits on a Sofa over a truck in Allahabad during a Muslim league Session in 1940s.  Bhakra Nangal Dam Site Workers gather outside Bhakra Nangal Dam site to collect their wages from a Pay Van in 1950s.  Mahatma Gandhi and Mohd. Ali Jinnah Mahatma Gandhi and Mohd. Ali Jinnah during a heated conversion[Very Famous Picture]  Wrestling Wrestler Daula pin down British Clark at a wrestling match for a fundraiser in Lahore in 1930s.  Jawahar Lal Nehru,1947 Lord Mountbatten Swears Jawahar Lal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of India in Delhi in 1947.  Train Refugees travelling on train, Hindus and Sikhs to India and Muslims to Pakistan were easy targets for Killers while Refugees cross the Borders.  Red Fort Jawahar Lal Nehru at Red Fort at Indian Independence Day.  Shocked people gather in Calcutta after hearing Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination news.  Large No. of people gather in Delhi to pay their last tribute to Mahatma Gandhi , 1948. Tell me how did you liked these pics ? Are you a fan of Black and White Pictures ? If you have some you could share them. |
Priceless picks, thanks for sharing. India Gate looks so much better now. At least something was worse in the past :)
ReplyDeletenice pictures and commnetary
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed this post as well, its good to see these pics and be transported to the bygone era...
ReplyDeleteThanks again Siddhartha !
ReplyDeletesuperb...remind our past
ReplyDeletesunil.kalra
Thanks Sunil :)
ReplyDeleteexcellent collection.
ReplyDeleteThese are lovely pictures and very nostalgic too
ReplyDeleteVijay
These are lovely pictures..very nostalgic
ReplyDeleteDude, that your connaught place pic is giving wrong illusion. That pic is actually combined. atleast write somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI would have liked if you had read closely, I had clearly written below the pic that it is combination of two pics, I am always up for criticism and would correct anything wrong in my Blog, thanks for the comment.
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