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Vintage posts of interesting people, places, & moments from India & other parts of South Asia
Vintage pics of interesting people, places, & moments from India & other parts of South Asia
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Reita Faria, the first Indian Miss World (1966), turned down film offers to become a doctor. At her crowning, the announcer described her as the 'world's most beautiful gynecologist'
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2025/02/01
00:28 UTC
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26.11.1948- Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, chairman of Drafting committee presenting the constitution to Dr Rajendra Prasad, the 1st President of India.
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2025/01/31
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1940- One of the Greatest Carnatic singer MS Subbalakshmi on her wedding day with her husband Kalki Sadasivam
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2025/01/30
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Veena Prakash, Miss India, 1977. She withdrew from Miss World to protest against the presence of a white Miss South Africa in the competition.
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2025/01/29
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At one time, zebra-drawn carts were also used in India. This was around the year 1930s
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2025/01/28
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Two Indian ladies with white man 1935
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2025/01/28
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Crowds gather outside Bombay's Imperial Theatre to watch a Devika Rani film in 1935
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2025/01/22
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A student at the University of Madras with his hair nailed to the wall to keep from falling asleep, 1905
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2025/01/20
14:10 UTC
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Swargiya Swarn Gokila Lata Mangeshkar ji with Swatantra Veer Savarkar | 1950s
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2025/01/18
15:02 UTC
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Lady with a Lambretta at the Gateway of India, Bombay, 1970s
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2025/01/17
15:08 UTC
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"Marang Gomke" Jaipal Singh Munda- captain of the Indian hockey team that went on to win Gold at the 1928 Olympics, and later a member of the Constituent Assembly of India where he represented Adivasis (tribals)- during his time in St John's College at Oxford University, 1925 [seated, centre]
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2025/01/04
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"No people of the Indian Ocean are the superior of the Maldivians as boat builders, fishermen and sailors." James Hornell (Director of Fisheries, Madras Govt.), The Origins & Ethnological Significance of Indian Boat Designs, Memoirs of the Asiatic Society, 1920.
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2024/12/29
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Man hugs an Indian Soldier standing guard during a public gathering two days after the liberation of Jessore, East Pakistan, during the third India-Pakistan war (1971)
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2024/12/26
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President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi after signing the Shimla Agreement in Himachal Pradesh (1972)
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2024/12/22
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The Panchen Lama and Dalai Lama set up their film cameras before entering the Elephanta Caves in Bombay, India (1956)
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2024/12/20
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To Indian Friends / भारतीय दोस्तों के लिऐ - Soviet Propaganda Song, 1956
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2024/12/18
08:35 UTC
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Indian Air Marshal Dewan takes the Instrument of Surrender after it is signed by Pakistani Lt. Gen. Niazi (1971)
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2024/12/17
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Prominent Bengali feminist Begum Rokeya with her Husband. 1898
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2024/12/17
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26th March declaration of Independence by Bangabandhu in Ramna Racecourse. 1971
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2024/12/17
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East Bengali refugees returning to their motherland. December 1971.
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2024/12/17
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British Indian Soldiers Chat with Local Children in Italy During WWII, 1943
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2024/12/15
19:24 UTC
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HM Queen Elizabeth observing making of traditional food on her visit to Maldives (1972).
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2024/12/14
12:49 UTC
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Kids trying to cool off on a hot summer day. (1970s)
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2024/12/11
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Primary school students standing in line for PT time in the morning. (Kaski, Nepal, 1970s)
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2024/12/11
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