Rare & Old Photos of India - Interesting & thought provoking!!

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A young AR Rahman with Yesudas


Actress Madhubala Photoshoot for LIFE Magazine

WOW!!!!!

A rare photo of APJ Abdul Kalam from his College Days


Amitabh Bachchan and his Family – 1970


Bombay in 1950


A Rare picture of First President of India Dr. Rajender Prasad


Rolls Royce Depot – Bombay


Phoolan Devi – the Bandit Queen of India in the early 1980


The first Indian Cricket team tour to England – 1886


Death of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa with a young Vivekananda ( 4th from left ) Mourning


Rabindranath Tagore With Sir Maurice Gwyer and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan at Sinha Sadan after the Oxford University Convocation on 7 August 1940


Young Sachin Tendulkar & Vinod Kambli



Pranab Mukharjee three decade ago



Opera house mg road in Bangalore – 1950’s


Netaji Subash Candra Bose and parents


Naval Tata, Ratan Tata and Noel Tata



Mahatma Gandhi’s Last photo



A Very rare photo of Nathuram Godse, who shot Mahathma Gandhi



This was the last time when Netaji was caught by Britishers


Straight shoulders, head held high, Netaji does look like a true leader.

Anna Hazare as an Army man

 

[Aarush]

mother teresa 18-years-old-photo

Neta ji With Hitler..

 

[dray]

A rare photo Indian Cricketers Sachin, Sehwag and Zaheer partying & dancing.



Chandrashekhar Azad dead body


I first thought about not to share this photo of Chandrashekhar Azad, but then I thought to leave the choice to the viewers.

Indira Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin and Jawaharlal Nehru in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, 1953



Death sentence judgement poster of bhagat singh, sukhdev, rajguru and others(1930)



Indian Wrestler The Great Khali



First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Nehru watching the snake charmer



Dr. Ambedkar with family of some of his associates


Kapil dev and Indira Gandhi


Kapil Dev, Shah rukh and Sohail Khan playing football


Miss Universe Sushmita Sen and Miss World Aishwarya Rai in the 90s


A photograph depicting the marriage of HH Yuvaraja Sir Sri Kantirava Narasinharaja Wadiyar to HH Yuvrani Kempu Cheluvammanniyavaru Urs in Mysore in 1910



Ooty in Tamil Nadu – 1880


Prof. R Narasimhan, Architect of the First Digital Computer in India [Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Automatic Calculator-TIFRAC]





An Extremely rare picture of Rabindranath Tagore & Albert Einstein together



Randhir Kapoor, Raj Kapoor and Rekha (1970)



Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli while studying in school





Sarla Thakral was only 21 year old when she became the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license (1936)



Satyagrahis Demostrating Against British Rule


Secundrabagh, Lucknow, After the Slaughter of 2,000 Rebels, With the Skeletons Lying Around – 1858



Shahrukh Khan and Gauri in their young age

 

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Sir CV Raman explaining raman effect



Sir Mohinder Dhillon, The cockerel-fighter from Punjab who became one of Africa’s greatest cameramen, pictured on the deck of British Navy ship in Kenya, 1967



Student of university of Madras (1948) – While studying late night, Students used to tie their hairs to a nail in the wall for keeping themselves awake.



The First Freedom Struggle of India in 1857 – two men hanged by British



Indian Cricket Team 1994 having a lighter moment in the dressing room



A Rare picture at shooting spot of Yash Chopra, Anil Kapoor & Sridevi



The late actress Zohra Sehgal at her young acting career



Gabbar Singh on Glucose – D biscuit advertisement poster



Zeenat Aman winning second runner up in the Miss India contest 1970



Zeenat Aman in Air India Advertisement


Subash Candhra Bose meeting with Hitler



Swami Vivekananda and Narasimhacharya (standing) in America. This is one of the first pictures of Swami Vivekananda in America



Jawaharlal Nehru meeting Albert Einstein at Princeton, USA, 1949



MS Dhoni childhood photo


Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor in a single photo


Lady Mountbatten receives a farewell embrace from Governor-General of India C. Rjagopalachari, 1948


I admit that I am a bit confused about this one!!

Flora Fountain,Bombay 1880


Seetha Devi – Indian silent film acctress in 1925



Aerial view of Maidan Kolkata 1870




Finally Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in NCC during his childhood days

 

[B+ Dracula]

I like it

 

[dray]

Don't miss this one!!

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and all others...........................!!

 

[Indo-guy]

Don't miss this one!!

@levina @SarthakGanguly @ExtraOdinary @thesolar65 @scorpionx @Ravi Nair @anant_s @Indischer @arp2041 @nair @Robinhood Pandey @Roybot @jaunty @Abingdonboy @sancho @Srinivas @gslv mk3 @halupridol @Dash @MohitV @Skull and Bones @acetophenol @IND151 @HariPrasad @he-man @Guynextdoor2 @eowyn @Tridibans @sms @my2cents @neehar @jarves @Assault Rifle @lightoftruth @Rajaraja Chola @XiNiX @Android @nik22 @banvanaxl @OrionHunter @Star Wars @Nair saab @Shardul.....the lion @Indo-guy @Brahmos_2 @desert warrior @gslv @Ashokudu @Badbadman @Mike_Brando @foxbat @oFFbEAT @Urbanized Greyhound @GR!FF!N @COLDHEARTED AVIATOR @Bang Galore @Dillinger @AUSTERLITZ @sandy_3126 @Dem!god @Kurama @sourya kharib @zip @wolfschanzze @RKO @ni8mare @Tangent @JD_In @illusion8 @kaku1 @blood @ranjeet @GURU DUTT @rockstarIN @Soms @SamantK @IndoUS @SR-91 @danish_vij @kaykay @Black Widow @StormShadow @Bombaywalla @kurup @raja hindustani @noksss @TejasMk3 @shuntmaster @JAT BALWAN @jatt @INDIC @jbgt90 @Sam Manekshaw @drunken-monke
and all others...........................!!

Indeed great collection ....

takes one to a totally different era ....

awesome and wonderful !!!

thanks a lot for tagging me here ....

 

[anant_s]

Actress Madhubala Photoshoot for LIFE Magazine

Arguably the Most beautiful face to Grace Indian Cinema. Pity she left so young.

A Rare picture at shooting spot of Yash Chopra, Anil Kapoor & Sridevi

woh bhi kya LAMHE thay

 

[scorpionx]

Great Pics @DRAY . Just wow!! Some of them left my mouth open for seconds.

 

[anant_s]

Bombay in 1950

That location on bottom left near a cart (just above Glu-cola sign) has a Mcdonald joint today. The location is present days Fort Mumbai.

 

[RKO]

India back then is more clean then what it is now!!!! Thx to plastic n electronic waste!!!!

 

[Nova2]

Golden Temple of Amritsar, Punjab – c1860′s

kanchipuram temple ,India

Rabindranath Tagore with Brahmacharyashrama boys – Santiniketan 1903

Hooghly River Bank after the Cyclone – Calcutta (Kolkata) 1867

Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai, India

Andaman Tribals Fishing – Circa 1870

Bridge in Srinagar – Kashmir

The Taj Mahal, Agra

The Harbor from the Yacht Club – Bombay

People at the side of River Ganges – Benares (Varanasi)

 

[anant_s]

@DRAY : Hope you won't mind, i'm adding some old Indian ad pics to your thread.

Cinema stars and Advertising have always gone hand in hand. here are some old classics

 

[thesolar65]

Many Many Thanks!!

@DRAY @anant_s @Nova2

Keep posting. We both father and son are upgrading our GK!!

 

[Badbadman]