Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court

India Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court Mohamad Chagla

Bharat Mata

Abanindranath Tagore, Bharat Mata (Mother India), watercolor on paper, 1905.

Alappuzha

Fishermen with Nets at Alappuzha (Alleppey), Kerala - 1928

Mandir in Srinagar

Meruvardhanaswami Temple, Pandrethan, Srinagar in 1870
Taken by an unknown Photographer.
Does it still exist?

Temple in Kashmir

Kashmir. First group of temples near the village of Wangut in the Sind Valley. View of principal temple looking north. Probable date A.D. 1
Taken by John Burke in 1868.
Does this temple exist in present times?

Royal Tennis

Maharajah's tennis party at Kapurthala during the British Raj.

Kashmiri Boy and Girl

Studio Portrait of a Young Kashmiri Boy and Girl - 1890's

Bilaspur Royals

Raja Sir Anand Chand of Bilaspur State (HP), Rani Lady Sudarshana Chand, Tika Gopal Chand (the kid) with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at Parliamentary Bungalow Delhi.

Hadi Rani

Hadi Rani Mahal is a superb work of Architecture of Rajasthan. Maharani Hadi was daughter of Hada Rajput married to a Chundawat chieftain of Salumbar in Mewar who sacrificed herself to motivate her husband to go to war.

Sania Mirza

Sania Mirza with her sister Anam Mirza.
Pic with thanks to Sania Mirza

Today is her birthday

Multan

Photograph of the ghats or stepped embankments lining the Chanderbhaga (Chenab) river in Multan, now in Pakistan, taken by an unknown photographer in the 1880s

The city of Multan has a recorded history that stretches back over two millennia. It was an ancient stronghold of the Buddhist Gandharas, then from the 6th century AD a centre of Hinduism, especially the worship of Surya or the sun God.

Nana Sahib

Dhondu Pant, born a king, died a freedom fighter, Kanpur rebellion 1857

Kashmiri Family

A Kashmiri Family in 1922

Bijapur Mosque

Dated to 1320CE & built of reused (not vandalised) temple pillars, it is arguably the oldest standing Islamic structure in Bijapur. The mosque barely hangs on & still has daily Quran readings.
Pic with thanks from famous archaeologist Tathagata Neogi

A Sikh woman

1890. A Sikh woman before her wedding.

Hampi

A 1857 and a 2017 pics of south side of the Shri Krishna Temple, Hampi. Commissioned by the great Krishna Dev Raya himself. 

Labrang Fort

Labrang Fort, Tehsil Pooh, Distt. Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh in 1860

The Mall at Shimla

The Mall, Simla, 1890's

Churchill in India

Winston Churchill in India in 1896. Here he was serving as part of the 4th Queen’s Hussars. Winston had quite some military experience. After graduation from the Royal Military College of Sandhurst, Churchill went on to join the Hussars. He would also act as a war correspondent and would change between the roles of soldier and writer. From India to the Sudan and South Africa. Winston got to witness war first hand.

An Old Weekly's Front Page

September 25, 1880 front page of weekly newspaper The Graphic depicting scene of an afternoon in Himalayas

Manipuri Polo

Polo players from Manipur in India prepare for a match, circa 1885

Balancing with gold

Maharaja of Bikaner is being balanced with gold on the occasion of his 50th government anniversary, Photograph, Around 1930 (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

Lord and Mahatma

1940s - Mountbatten and Gandhi

Memsahib

Memsahib in a rickshaw during British era

Maharaja of Nabha

Ripudaman Singh, also known as Maharaja Gurcharan Singh and later as Sardar Gurcharan Singh, was the ruler or the Maharaja of Nabha, from the year 1911 and 1928, when he was overthrown by the British Government. At a later period, he became a well known Sikh revolutionary. Maharaja Ripudaman Singh. Singh was born on March 4th, 1883 at Nabha in the present Patiala district, in the state of Punjab. He was the heir and only son of Maharaja Sir Hira Singh. During the period 1906 to 1908, Ripudaman Singh was a member of the Imperial Legislative Council and he spoke for the benefit and interest of the Sikh people and also initiated reformist legislation. Singh represented the region of Nabha in the year 1911 at the coronation of George V. 

Practicing Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948) when he was practising as an attorney in South Africa. He is seated in front of a window bearing his name, on the left is H S L Polak then his clerk. The woman is Miss Schlesin, a Russian. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Nainital

1880s Nainital Pics.

Maharaja of Rewa

Maharaja Venkat Raman Singh (b. 1876, r. 1880-1918) of Rewa, c.1885

Dying Midway

Few of those plenty who could not survive to see their new destination.

Pic-Life Magazine.

Maharaja of Patiala

Mahendra Singh, Maharaja of Patiala. 1875.

A Mulsim man

A Muslim man carrying his hookah in one hand while balancing pole holding his 5-yr. old son in convoy from India to Pakistan on Western border.

Pic-Life magazine

Swami n Narayan

Dr Subramanian Swamy with Jayaprakash Narayan

University of Calcutta alumni

Few alumni from the University of Calcutta together.
Seated (L to R): Meghnad Saha, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Jnan Chandra Ghosh.
Standing (L to R): Snehamoy Dutt, Satyendranath Bose, Debendra Mohan Bose, N R Sen, Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, N C Nag

Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam in College Days

Warning to Kansa

Durga's (दुर्गा) warning given to Kansa (कंस).
An illustration to the Bhagwata Purana (भागवत पुराण). Indian Miniature Painting, Basolhli-Guler style. Circa 1760-65

Traditional Games

Kashmiri kids playing traditional games in old times.

Maharaja of Patiala

Maharaja of Patiala, had helped the East India Company to defeat  the King Bhimsen Thapa of Nepal. So Maharaja of Patiala was given the land surrounding the present-day Shimla as a reward. The agreement is signed in a British Governament diary entry dated 30 August 1817

Holy Cow

Two men touching a cow in a busy Calcutta (now Kolkata) street - 1946

Dhyan Chand and Hitler

After India defeated Germany 8-1 in 1936 Berlin Olympic, Hitler expressed his desire to meet Dhyan Chand. When Dhyan Chand came to know about this, he was numb with fear as he had heard about Adolf Hitler.

This conversation took place:

Hitler (while casting a glance at the sub-standard canvas shoes of Dhyan Chand): “what else do you do, when not playing hockey ?”

Dhyan Chand: ”I am in the Indian Army.”

Hitler: ”What is your rank?”

Dhyan Chand: ”I am Lance Nayak.”

Hitler: ”Come over to Germany. I will make you a Field Marshal.”

(Dhyan Chand couldn’t understand what happened in a fleeting second. he was confused if this was a command or a request).

Dhyan Chand: ”India is my country and I am fine there.”

Hitler: ”As you like it.”

Did you notice how he politely declined the offer? This just goes on to say that he was an incredible and revered player, but he never compromised on his beliefs and his love for India.

You were truly a Hockey wizard, Major Dhyan Chand. May you rest in peace.

Today is his birth Anniversary.

Indo-Pak War 1965

Indian Soldiers flying the Tri Colour at the Hajipir Pass , 28 Aug 1965

Temple's granary

Medieval temples were granted villages, the resources from which sustained it. The grains collected were stored in granaries, redistributed to the dependant communities in form of Prasadam & charity. This granary at Krishnadeva Raya’s Krishna temple stands out at Hampi. – at Krishna Temple

Jahangir's coin

Jahangir, with the name of Noorjahan - gold Mohur, Ahmedabad mint, AH1035/RY2X.

"By the order of king Jahangir, gold attained a hundred beauties, from the name of Noorjahan, the king's wife"

From the British Museum Collection.

A Kashmiri 'Zenana

Circa 1940: An Kashmiri 'Zenana' house with intricately carved balconies in Srinagar, the region's capital on the shores of the Jhelum river.
(Photo by Alice Schalek/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Queue for water

Muslims queue for water
#1947Partition

Pic - BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES