Sunday, April 26, 2020

Rare Images of 1946 India

 1946 Indian Prince of Mandi of the Rajput caste

 1946 Indian Prince of Mandi

 1946 Indian veiled bride of the Prince of Mand

 1946 Indian womam w. rope

 1946 Police officials in charge of keeping order

 1946 Starving Indian baby boy crying

 1946Indian women of the Rajput caste

 Circa 1946 Indian Brahmin Coffee Club owner, holding baby boy

 Circa 1946 Indian prostitutes peeking out

 Circa 1946 Little Indian girl standing beside policeman

 Clerks signalling whether to buy or sell fr. balcony of the Bombay Cotton Exchange

 Gandhi volunteer working w. telephone to cover visitor's appointments

 Poor Boy Husk

 Hindu man pouring water fr. village well


Hindu worker w. water bag over his shoulder

Indian moneylender, a member of Bania,


 Maharaja of Bikaner


 Man using a hand-cranked sewing machine to make clothes

 man wearing Gandhi medals he received for doing civilian service

 May 1946 Gandhi volunteer sitting w. an Indian policeman

 Mohandas Gandhi's nephew Kanu

 Prince of Berar,

 rickshaw worker of the Untouchables caste,

 Sikhs covering the holy book called Granath and decorating it with garlands, in the Golden Temple.

 Sikhs w. bicycles loaded w. milk

 starving old Indian woman's feet swollen

 Two young boys peering through the wheel of old military cannon

 woman in a sari buying vegetables

 woman w. grossly deformed limbs, dying of starvation

women of the Untouchables caste,

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