Most Amazing indian photos ever taken

I just came across some of the most amazing Indian pictures ever taken and would love to share them here.

• The first Indian lady pilot, Sarla Thakral, at 21 years of age

(I’m just a year older and the only substantial thing I’m doing is sharing about her achievement on Quora ._.)

• An aerial view of Raisina Hill. The Parliament is the circular building to the right. The two buildings in the foreground are the North and South Block. Rashtrapati Bhavan (unseen) is to the left.

Sharing this because the Raisina Dialogue — 2018 is going on right now.

• Pranab Mukherjee three decades ago

• Secundrabagh, Lucknow, after the slaughter of 2,000 rebels, with the skeletons lying around - 1858

• Sir C. V. Raman explaining the Raman effect

• A rare photo of Subhas Chandra Bose meeting with Hitler

• August 15, 1947 – The newspaper stating the freedom of India

• Rani Laxmi Bai Original picture clicked by a German photographer

• Mahatma Gandhi during his time in South Africa in 1900

• Nehru and Indira Gandhi on the Moscow Subway in 1955

• An Air India airhostess aiding a passenger on a Delhi-Bombay flight in 1946

• Lokmanya Tilak was cremated in the sitting legs crossed position (padmasana), a distinction given only to saints

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

• A rare photograph of Nehru and the First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy watching a snake charmer

• 1930 poster for declaring the death sentence judgement of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru and their companions

• The Beatles during their time at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram at Rishikesh in India

• The Imperial Crown of India in 1937

• Indira Gandhi, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto in Shimla in 1972, where the famous Simla Agreement was signed

• A very rare photograph of Nathuram Godse, who shot Mahatma Gandhi

• Tagore is greeted by Helen Keller

• The uniform of the Indian Army soldiers in 1850

• Indian ambulances lined up in Chennai in the 1940s

• The eternal rebel, Che Guevara in India in 1959

• Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi & Charlie Chaplin soak it in, in Switzerland

• Chandra Shekhar Azad’s dead body

• One of the first pictures of Swami Vivekananda in America with Narsimhacharya (standing) alongside himself at the desk

I hope you enjoyed this compilation and awed at some of them like I did. :)

Source Credit :

1. Viral Stories
2. Wikipedia
3. 39 absolutely iconic photos
4. 21 Rare Indian Photos That Will Take You Back In Time
5. 55 Rare and Amazing pictures of India's history
6. Raisina Dialogue | ORF
7. Simla Agreement July 2, 1972
8. Air India