Friday, August 14, 2009

Happy Independence Day (Old Photographs from Indian History)

This is our 62st Independence Day!

Freedom is not a Right but a Feeling!

Let's be proud to feel the Freedom!

Let's say loud we are INDIANS!!!

Let all of us get to-gather &
Let's Celebrate Our Freedom!



It is our duty to preserve this Freedom!

Carry this forward to the future!

We did,We do,We will do!!!

Set the celebration on Air, Share your Joy, You're Free to do it,

say
Vande Mataram!

Jai Hind





















Aug. 15, 1947: Mountbatten swears Nehru in as Prime Minister of India


TRAIN TO PAKISTAN; India 1947. Trains packed with refugees - Hindus and Sikhs headed for India, and Muslims headed for Pakistan - were convenient targets for gangs of killers on both sides of the border. Inadequately protected 'Refugee Specials' were typically stopped, and the occupants butchered, several times in the course of the journey.


1971: Indira Gandhi reviews the troops, in the context of militaryand diplomatic preparations for the Bangladesh War.


Ghandhiji Addressing people


Nehru and Gandhi at AICC meeting, July 1946


Mountbatten arrives at Delhi airport; received by Nehru and Liaquat Ali. March 25, 1947


1948: The news of Gandhi's assassination hits the streets. A stunned crowd gathers in Calcutta


A Library being divided at the time of partition. Heart trembles to see this sight and it is tough to imagine the state of the nation at the moment when people needed to hold hands.


A rare view of the President's palace and the Parliament building in New Delhi


An aerial view of Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi , built between 1650 and 1658