Thursday, October 17, 2019

Scroll Images present 16 Images from 1920 Pakistan as Part of India

 British Royal Family - Edward, Prince of Wales - Peshawar- 1922
 circa 1928 The interior of Jahangir's tomb, Shahchara, Lahore, Pakistan.
 circa 1929  A tree-lined canal in the Shalimar gardens in Lahore laid out by Shah Jahan in 1641.
 A Dussehra or Vijayadashami festival at Quetta, later part of Pakistan, circa 1920. The culmination of the Hindu festival of Navratri, this festival involves the burning of a huge effigy of the ten-headed demon Ravana to symbolize his defeat by Rama. A photograph by the Butani Bros from an album belonging to 3051127 Private. A. Baird, Signal Section, 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots.

 Indian garrison at the high mountain road  Khyber pass) to Afghanistan. 1929 30
 Jama Masjid, Rawalpindi', circa 1918-circa 1939. From an album of postcards.
 Mir Muhammad Nazim Khan, Mir of Hunza with his two oldest sons and his grandsons on the roof of the ancient castle at Baltit, Jammu & Kashmir, circa 1922.
 Mohammad Ali Jinnah1876-1948 Islamic Politician, Lawyer President of the Muslim League; first President of Pakistan - as a lawyer in Bombay, 1928 (
 Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876 - 1948 ), leader of the Mohammedan group in India and first governor-general of Pakistan.
 Pakistan. Roughrider of Baluchistan. 1920.
 Pakistan. Weatherbeaten wayfarers of Baluchistan. 1920.
The Imperial Airways 'City of Glasgow', an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, leaves the new Croydon Aerodrome for Karachi, 

 

 The Mall, Rawalpindi - Looking Towards Lockhart's Memorial in the Distance', circa 1918-circa 1939. From an album of postcards. Artist Unknown.

The Prince of Wales presents the Victoria Cross to Sepoy Ishar Singh of the 28th Punjabi's. He is the first Sikh soldier to receive this coveted decoration and was loudly applauded.

 The railway station at Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 1929. (
The Wali of Swat on the terrace of his residence at Saidu, Northwest Frontier, Pakistan, 1926.

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