20 Beautiful Images From British India

A Muslim League leader attends a Gandhi prayer meeting

 A Hindu festival in 1930, Clifton Karachi

 A school in Lahore, 1940

 An East India Company document, 1838 ratified by a Re 1 revenue stamp

Enjoying Karachi weather

 Grave of a soldier's wife, Mooltan (now Multan) India

 India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru practising yoga in the viceregal lodge, 1947

 Indian Minister of Finance Liaquat Ali Khan (1896 - 1951) at home with his wife Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan (1905 - 1990) and their sons, Ashraf (left) and Akbar, June 1947

 Kidnapping for ransom - Tipu Sultan's sons are taken hostage in 1793 This was after the successes of Cornwallis in the Third Mysore War and the capture of Seringapatam. There was a treaty whereby half of Tipu's area went under the British. The 'hostages' were taken to ensure implementation of the Treaty.

 Maulana Shaukat Ali, Shri Shankaracharya, Dr Kitchlew and Maulana Mohamed Ali during the Khilafat movement

 Mir Jafar curtseys to Lord Clive at the end of the Battle of Plassey, 1757  The life of Mir Jafar gave many lessons to those aspiring for being rulers after him: a) ditch your own master, b) side with the foreign master, c) tax your own people to give royalties to the foreign rulers, d) be corrupt - the more corrupt you are the better your prospects, and e) to hell with your own people, let them die of famine. Many of our rulers have emulated his 'inspiring' example since 1757 and it seems as if nothing has changed since then!

 Mr. Jinnah with Lord and Lady Wavell in Simla

 Prince Asif Jah with an elephant

 Private Begum Pasha Shah of the WAC (1) on duty in the Orderly Room of an RAF station in India, August 1943

 Sibghatullah Shah Pir Pagaro Unlike popular belief Pagaro is not the name of a place but literally means the tribal chieftain's turban. Sibghatullah Shah was arrested on the orders of Sir Hugh Dow the Governor of Sindh in 1941 who had 

 Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto in the early 1930s Visiting the High School Larkana as Chairman District Council. To his left is Mr Karim Bakhsh the Principal of the school

 Some prominent Muslim leaders from across India

 The Death Certificate of Bhagat Singh

The First Sindh Constituent Assembly, 1937 

The picture features the following members from left seated: 3rd - Rais Rasul Bux Unnar, 6th - Syed Khair Shah, 8th - M. Yusuf Chandio, 9th - Ms. Jethi Sipahimalani, 10th - M. Usman Soomro, 11th - Mir Bandeh Ali Talpur, 12th - Muhammad Ali Shah, 13th - R.B Bhoj Singh (Speaker), 15th - Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah, 20th - Miran Muhammad Shah, 24th - Nawab Jan Muhammad Junejo, 25th - Nihchal Das Vazirani. Standing from left, 1st row: 1st - Naraindas Bechar, 4th - M. Hashim Gazdar, 5th - Pirzada Abdul Sattar, Last - Mir Ghulam Ali Talpur. Standing from left, Last row: 1st - Arbab Togachi, 2nd - Sardar Bahadur Mir Haji Allahdad Talpur, 3rd - Muhammad Ayub Khuhro, 4th - Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta, 5th - Allah Bux Soomro, 11th - Shaikh Abdul Majeed Sindhi, Last - G.M Syed.