Tuesday, 31 January 2017

ANCIENT INDIA

 Train at 1895


 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Reviewing the Troops of Azad Hind Fauj - 1940's


 Indian Young Nationalist Affixing a Boycott Sign, to a Foreign Cart in the Streets


 Bombay (Mumbai), India – Street of the Pearl Dealers - 1912


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


 We see a portrait of India's first Test Cricket Team on its maiden tour to England


Zebra cart in 1930s Calcutta 

 
 A Locomotive Railway Engine on the line of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway


 Tagore is greeted by Helen Keller.


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


 Pavement School, Gelatin Silver Print - Jaipur, 1948


 This image of Tagore and Einstein brings geniuses from worlds apart together.


 A watch store in Lahore, then still a part of India, in 1946.


 The last surviving picture of Bhagat Singh while he was jailed.


 Interior of the Sikandar Bagh after the slaughter of 2,000 rebels


 Chandpal Ghat, Kolkata. Bathers reached the river through tunnels under the rail


 Dhyan Chand playing for India vs. France in the 1936 Olympic Hockey semi-finals


The uniform of the Indian Army soldiers in 1850

 
 Mahatma Gandhi during his time in South Africa in 1900.


Girls School in Jaipur, Rajasthan - 1870's

 
 Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan and Sir Maurice Gwyer at Sinha Sadan


 All of Mahatma Gandhi's worldly possessions, captured in 1938.


 The Great Gama and his brother Imam Baksh square off during an exhibition match


 The Times of India building at Elphinstone Circle in 1898.


 Two crew members of a Sherman tank of the Scinde Horse


 A Young French boy introduces himself to Indian soldiers who had just arrived


 Indian soldiers holding a Nazi flag which they had captured at Libyan Oma


 Few of the rarest photos from India are Felice Beato’s photographs from Indian


 Indian ambulances lined up in Chennai in the 1940s


Earliest known photograph of the Taj Mahal taken by Dr. John Murray

Tuesday, 24 November 2015

A few magnificent temples of India

Arulmigu Arunachaleswarar Temple , Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu

Arulmigu Meenakshi Sundareswarar ThiruKovil, Madurai , Tamil Nadu

Arulmigu Sarangapani Temple - Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu

Brihadeeshwar temple, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu . 

Chamundeswari Temple , Chamundi Hills, Mysore , Karnataka 

Dakshineswar Kali Temple Dakshineswar (near Kolkata), West Bengal

Kanchi Kamakshi Amman Temple , Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu

Kedarnath temple, Kedarnath, Uttarakhand

Lord Kalabhairaveshwara Temple , Adichunchanagiri Math (95 Kms from Bangalore ), Karnataka




Murudeshwara Temple , Murudeshwar (165 kms from Mangalore), Karnataka.

Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu

Shore Temple, Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu

Sree Seetha Ramachandra Swamivari Temple, Bhadrachalam, Andhra Pradesh

Sri Chennakesava Temple , Belur (Near Hassan), Karnataka

Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Temple , Dharmasthala (75 kms from Mangalore), Karnataka

Sri Gokarnanatheshwara Temple, Mangalore, Karnataka

Sri Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebidu (Near Hassan), Karnataka

Sri Kalahastheshwara Temple, Kalahasti, Andhra Pradesh
Sri Krishna MuttTemple, Udupi (60 kms from Mangalore), Karnataka

Sri Krishna Temple, Guruvayur, Kerala

Sri Madhuru Madananteshwara Siddivinayaka Temple , Madhur (50 kms from Mangalore), Kerala

Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple Tiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Sri Ramanathaswamy Temple Corridor, Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu

Sri Ranganathaswamy Kovil ( Temple ), Srirangam (Near Trichy), Tamil Nadu

Sri Shantadurga temple, Ponda, Goa

Sri Sharadamba Temple, Sringeri Sharada Peetham, Sringeri (101 kms from Mangalore), Karnataka

Sri Venkateswara Temple, Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh

Sri Virupaksha Temple, Hampi, Karnataka

Suchindram Temple, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu..

Tiruchendur Sri Subrahmanya Swami Devasthanam, Tiruchendur, Tamil Nadu