19th August 1959: Dr Bimal Chandra and Arati Saha from Calcutta prepare to conquer the Channel. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
Seven-year-old feral Ramu (1947 - 1968), known in the media as 'Wolf Boy,' gnaws on raw meat shortly aftechild r his discovery in Lucknow, India, early 1954. Ramu had apparently been raised by wolves after disappearing from his home approximately six years earlier. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\
Two men taking their morning wash at a public pump on the streets of Calcutta, India. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)
25th August 1954: A demonstration by workers including satyagrahis (a satyagraha is a non-violent demonstration introduced by Gandhi) ) from Uttar Pradesh against the use of Special Powers Act in connection with the Kisan satyagraha in UP. They are accompanied by turban wearing police carrying lathis (heavy iron-tipped staves). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
circa 1950: An Indian coal miner carrying a basket load of coal on his head. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
circa 1950: A beggar sits in the middle of the street in Banares, India. (Photo by Siegfried Sammer/Three Lions/Getty Images)
24th February 1951: A Tibetan woman and her child in Kalimpong, northern Bengal, after fleeing Tibet following Chinese oppression in her homeland. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5210 - Tibet Dissolves - pub. 1951 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)
circa 1954: Rickshaw drivers in Cochin on the Malabar Coast in India's south-western state of Kerala. The architecture is influenced by the Portuguese who settled there in the 16th century. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)
circa 1954: Pedestrians and traffic on Queens Road, Bombay's famous avenue of hotels, apartment houses and cinemas. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)
1958: A hairdresser in Madras, India tends to her customer's coiffure in the street, enabling them both to work at the same time. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
26th January 1950: India's high commissioner in London, Krishna Menon, signs the Oath of Allegiance to the Indian constitution at a ceremony at India House, Aldwych, London, to mark India's becoming a republic within the British Commonwealth of Nations, in front of paintings of Indian leaders Pandit Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi). (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
circa 1950: Three women waiting to be admitted to the sacred grounds of the Golden Temple at Amritsar. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)
circa 1950: On the birthday of Gobind Singh, last of the great Sikh religious leaders, the Maharajah of Patiala (centre) visits the Golden Temple at Amritsar. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)
circa 1950: A workman climbs a bamboo ladder to the scaffolding which covers part of the Taj Mahal, one of the world's greatest landmarks and monuments to love at Agra, India. The weather has affected the four century old building and the Indian government is subsidizing the cost of repair and restoration. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)
circa 1950: A man buying fruit from a street stall in front of an advertising hoarding promoting several films in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Richard Harrington/Three Lions/Getty Images)
8th December 1955: Three Sikh boys, originally from the Punjab, making chapatis at home in the dockland area of Liverpool. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
circa 1955: A beggar in Connaught Place, Delhi. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)
circa 1955: Visitors at the tomb of Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) in Delhi. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)
circa 1955: The Temple of Kali on the outskirts of Calcutta. Calcutta was named after the goddess Kali. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)
1953: The Taj Mahal becomes the target of an alien bid to damage and destroy the landmarks of Earth's civilization in Paramount's screen adaptation of H G Wells' novel 'The War Of The Worlds'. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6450 - War - Martians Invade America ! - pub. 1953 (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Getty Images)
circa 1955: Kunuthat, one of the chief teachers of the art of snake charming performs in Mithabar, near New Delhi. The area is ideal for snake breeding and is an ancient centre of the snake charming profession. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)
15th December 1959: American president, Dwight D Eisenhower with Indian Government officials outside the Taj Mahal, India. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
Track runner Jesse Owens in India. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Defense Minister of India V. K. Krishna Menon (C) speaking at the Suez conference. (Photo by Michael Rougier/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
An Indian nurse bathing American children living in India. (Photo by John Dominis/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Maharaja's elephant is the last one left in the palace stables. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Crowd of people with umbrellas standing outside during monsoon. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Chenchu babies. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Special pilgrim train arriving. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Group of farmers winnowing spring wheat by wind method. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Cobra performing for snake-charmers, in new capital city of Punjab. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Indian woman shifting a head-load of gravel to another at relay point en route to concrete mixer, during construction of Chandigarh, new capital city of Punjab. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Indo-Goan border post on Karwar road, manned by Portuguese troops. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Crowds of people coming out to greet the Everest expedition members. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
A hand places a vote into a ballot box during the Travancore-Cochin elections, Trivandrum, India, March 1954. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
A young boy in India who had been brought up with wolves before being discovered and taken to live with a family in Agra, 1950s. He walks on all fours and has no speech ability. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
A young boy in India drinking from a dish, 1950s. The child had been living with wolves all his life before being discovered and taken in by a family in Agra, he walks on all fours and has no speech ability. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
Politics, India, 1950, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, a nationalistic politician who was Prime Minister from 1947 pictured here with his grandchildren, He was the father of Indira Gandhi and finished his education at Cambridge University (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
India, Circa 1950's, Traffic in a busy Bombay street (Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Left to right: First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Nikita Khrushchev (1874 - 1971), Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984) and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin (1895 - 1975), Palam Airport, New Delhi, 18th November 1955. The Soviet leaders are on a tour of India and Burma. The airport is now known as Indira Gandhi International Airport. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Mountaineer Edmund Hillary after his Everest expedition, India, June 1953. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
A parade to celebrate Republic Day, New Delhi, India, 1957. (Photo by Express/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
Close-up of a mother as she kisses her child, who holds a rattle, Delhi, India, 20th century. (Photo by Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
A view as a man combs his hair in Calcutta, India. Circa 1950.(Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A street view as cattle rest in Calcutta, India. Circa 1950. (Photo by Archive Photos/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
Indian President Rajendra Prasad (left) swearing in new cabinet minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as India becomes a republic, January 30th 1950. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Portrait of Indian President Rajendra Prasad holding his three month old grandchild, New Delhi, January 31st 1950. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Fisherman's boy playing with toy boat , Arnala , Maharashtra , India , 1951 . (Photo by Dinodia Photos/Getty Images)
Yugoslavian President Marshal Josip Broz Tito with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President Rajendra Prasad in a car, escorted by a Mounted Guard of Honor, as they arrive at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi, December 18th 1954. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, arrives at Birla House in Mussoorie, India, after fleeing from Tibet, April 1959. Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Group of men stand around a dead tiger during tiger hunt week in Gwalior. President Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia is visiting Maharaja George Jivaji Rao Scindia 'King George' during the famed tiger hunting week. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
Group of men stand around a dead tiger during tiger hunt week in Gwalior. President Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia is visiting Maharaja George Jivaji Rao Scindia 'King George' during the famed tiger hunting week. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
Maharaja George Jivaji Rao Scindia 'King George' inspecting guns to be used for hunting tigers. At this time, President Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia is visiting Maharaja George Jivaji Rao Scindia 'King George' of Gwalior during the famed tiger hunting week. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
President Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia and official Aleksandar arrive by train to Gwalior, India, during the famed tiger hunting week. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
East Indian Girl, Trinidad, B.W.I.', (British West Indies), circa 1952. Young Indo-Trinidadian woman wearing jewellery. Indo-Trinidadians and Tobagonians or Indian Trinidadians are nationals of what is now Trinidad and Tobago, with ancestry from the Indian subcontinent. [Y. De Lima & Co., Ltd, Port of Spain, Trinidad, B.W.I.]. Artist Unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)
People standing looking at the tail end of the fuselage of the BOAC Comet 1 (G-ALYV) airliner which crashed six minutes after taking off from Dum Dum Airport, in Dum Dum, West Bengal, India, 4 May 1953. The crash, on 2 May 1953, killed all 43 passengers and crew on board the flight. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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