(Original Caption) The "Monster of British Goods" mounted on a camel cart--one of the many figures constructed and paraded during a Gandhi demonstration in the Rambagh here. After the demonstration was over the "monster" was burned. (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)December 1947: Bloody Moslem celebrant holding handles of chains connected to sharp blades which he has been flaying himself with during the frenzied madness of the religiously orgiastic anniversary. celebration of the Moslem martyrdom of Hussain during Muslim month of (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)December 1947: Muslim League National Guardsmen w. theirs & the Pakistani flags, chanting Free Kashmir as they ride on a truck through the crowd at Boulton Market while advertising their evening's meeting during propaganda campaign for new recruits. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)December 1947: Pakistani government workers camp comprised of a tent where 600 clerks & messenger boys live. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)December 1947: Crowd of Hindu refugees crowding dock as they prepare to ship out for new homes in Bombay. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)December 1947: Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah, the Gov. of Sind, w. his servants, killing sheep in his backyard during Baqr Id, the Festival of Sacrifice, when it is traditional that a ram, sheep or goat is sacrificed for every member of a man's family in commemoration of (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)December 1947: Pakistani women in purdah, w. their children, being driven by jeep to the Mahatma Gandhi Gardens which is reserved for ladies only on the last Friday of each month where they can take off their veils and really raise hell. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)November 1947: Pakistani members of the Sind Muslim Women's National Guard practicing combat w. bamboo lathi sticks traditionally used by the Indian police. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)People, Refugees, pic: circa the 1950s, Pakistan, Karachi, Refugees who live on the roadside in makeshift tents in the center of Karachi, awaiting a settlement with the government (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)A street stall in front of the Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC) building on M. A. Jinnah Road, Pakistan, 1950. (Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)INDIA - DECEMBER 08: British agents striking Indians accused of having destroyed a shop selling English goods in Karachi, India on March 10, 1931. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)INDIA - MARCH 03: A demonstration in the streets of Karachi, calling for a boycott of Western foods on January 3, 1931. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)INDIA - AUGUST 15: The Mahatma GANDHI leaving the Nationalists' congress in Karachi, India, after the ratification of the IRWIN-GANDHI pact which gave him much power against the English on April 17, 1931. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)ITALY - CIRCA 1890: A group of crocodiles resting in a swamp in Karachi, Pakistan (Photo by Unidentified Author/Alinari Archives, Florence/Alinari via Getty Images)ITALY - CIRCA 1900: A fountain in the city park of Karachi, in Pakistan (Photo by Unidentified Author/Alinari Archives, Florence/Alinari via Getty Images)Karachi Pier, c1927. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)(Original Caption) A deadly cobra swings and sways to the spellbinding music of US jazzman, John "Dizzy" Gillespie in Karachi, Pakistan. On a State Department-sponsored tour of Asia, Gillespie donned a turban, wrapped a reptile around his neck, and squatted in typical snake-charmer fashion to delight a crowd of natives at Frere Hall Gardens. Pakistanis and cobra found him irresistible.Demonstration of Indian nationalist women on the opening day of the Round Table Conference in London; they carry signs inscribed in Hindu 'Down with the Conference of India', in Karachi, Pakistan, January 3, 1931. (Photo by Keystone-France \ Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on his return to India. at a civic reception during his first visit to Karachi. 1916. Gandhi (2 October 1869 Ð 30 January 1948). was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience. Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Types of habitats, Karachi, Taken from 'Kurrachee [Karachi]: Past, Present, and Future' by Alexander F. Baillie (London, 1890), India, circa 1890. (Photo by Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images
(Original Caption) The "Monster of British Goods" mounted on a camel cart--one of the many figures constructed and paraded during a Gandhi demonstration in the Rambagh here. After the demonstration was over the "monster" was burned. (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)
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