Rare Photographs That Will Destroy Everything You Knew About The Past

These assorted photographs from India are sure going to take you on a nostalgic ride. These photographs are a mirror of the some happy, sad, surprising or some baffling moments from the rich past of India. These will genuinely stimulate your brain and inspire you to dig up the history books.

1. A 1950 Bombay

2. A 90s picture of Miss Universe Sushmita Sen and Miss World Aishwarya Rai

3. A rare photoshoot of Madhubala for the LIFE magazine

4. A 1970s photo of Amitabh Bacchan and family

5. A rare picture of President of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad

6. A 1980s Picture of The Bandit Queen- Phoolan Devi

7. Mourning of death of Ramkrishna Paramhansa with young Vivekananda (4th from left)

8. Young Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli

9. 1950s Opera House on MG road in Bangalore

10. Naval Tata, Ratan Tata and Noel Tata

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

12. Anna Hazare when he was in the army

13. The dead body of Chandra Shekhar Azad

14. 1930 poster for declaring the death sentence judgement of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru and their companions

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

16. Indira Gandhi with Kapil Dev

17. 1880 Ooty, Tamil Nadu

18. Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein

19. A rare school picture of Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli

20. Rarest of rare Satyagrahis’ picture demonstrating against the British Raj

21. A young Shahrukh Khan with Gauri Khan

22. Pictured on the deck of British Navy in Kenya, 1967, is this Cockerel -Fighter, Sir Mohinder Dhillon from Pujab, who was also one of Africa’s greatest cameramen

23. Two Indian men being hanged by British during the First Freedom Struggle of India in 1857

24. Anil Kapoor, Sridevi and Yash Chopra relaxing at a shooting spot

25. A Glucose-D biscuits ad poster featuring Amzad Khan aka Gabbar Singh

26. An Air India advertisement with Zeenat Aman as their poster girl

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

28. M. S. Dhoni when he was still at school

29. The Governor General of India, C. Rajgopalchari, giving Lady Mountbatten a farewell embrace, 1948

30. A silent movie actress- Seetha Devi, in 1925

31. The Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, as a NCC cadet in his childhood days

32. Young A. R. Rehman with Yesudas in a studio

33. A rare picture of young A. P. J. Abdul Kalam from his college days

34. The Rolls Royce Depot in Bombay

35. The first Indian cricket team tour to England, in 1886

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

37. A rare photograph of our President Pranab Mukherjee some thirty years back

38. Subhash Chandrqa Bose with parents

39. The last photograph of Mahatma Gandhi

40. The last successful arrest of Subhash Chandra Bose by the Britishers

41. A rare photograph of Indian cricketers, Sachin, Sehwag and Zaheer, having a gala time partying

42. Indira Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Charlie Chaplin at Bürgenstock, Switzerland, 1953

43. A younger Indian wrestler, The Great Khali

44. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar with family of some of his associates

45. The marriage of HH Yuvaraja Sir Sri Kantirava Narasinharaja Wadiyar to HH Yuvrani Kempu Cheluvammanniyavaru Urs in Mysore, 1910