Tuesday, April 15, 2025

What was the rarest picture of Indian history?

 1- Maharani Gayatri Devi, Princess of Jaipur, on her wedding day

2- People enjoying a ferris wheel ride in Benares (Varanasi), 1960s

3- Young Indian nationalists affixing the Boycott Sign on a foreign cart in the streets of Bombay, 1930

4- Zebra cart being used as a mode of transport in Calcutta in the 1930s

5- Elephants loading supplies on C-46 planes in India during World War II

6- A girls’ school in Jaipur, Rajasthan, 1870s

7- The ruins of Sikandar Bagh Palace in Lucknow with the skeletal remains of rebel sepoys in the foreground, 1858

8- Earliest known photograph of the Taj Mahal taken by Dr. John Murray of the East India Company in the 1850s

9- A library with books being divided into India and Pakistan during Partition in 1947

10- A young French boy introduces himself to Indian soldiers who had just arrived in Marseilles to fight alongside French and British forces in World War I, September 30, 1914

11- Dr. Rajendra Prasad with President’s Bodyguards (PBG) on the streets of Chandni Chowk, Delhi

12- Lord Mountbatten swears in Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of free India at the ceremony held on August 15, 1947

13- Sir C V Raman explaining the Raman Effect to his students in 1930

14- Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar with his wife Dr Savita Ambedkar, helper Sudama and their pet dog

15- The last time Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was arrested by the British police

16- Indira Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin And Jawaharlal Nehru in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, 1953