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