(1873) Parsi Virbaiji School (B.V.S. Parsi High School), Karachi
(1920) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Mahatma Ghandi in Peshawar
(1940s) Streets of Pre-Partition Peshawar with signs in Urdu and Hindu
1930s) Vijayadashami (Dussehra) - Burning effigy of Ravana in Quetta, Balochistan
1935. Timetable and map of Tata Air Mail plane schedules. Just three years ago, J. R. D. Tata made his maiden voyage from Juhu Aerodrome in Bombay to Drigh Road airstrip (Now Jinnah International Airport) in Karachi via Ahmedabad
A photograph depicting the marriage of HH Yuvaraja Sir Sri Kantirava Narasinharaja Wadiyar to HH Yuvrani Kempu Cheluvammanniyavaru Urs in Mysore in 1910
Actress Devika Rani from magazine FilmIndia (1937-38)
An elephant at an Allied airfield in India loads an American C-46 during World War II.
An emaciated soldier of the British Indian Army who survived the Siege of Kut(a part of the Mesopotamia campaign) , 1916
Anjuman-i-Islam school in 1890s Bombay
British RAF (Royal Air Force) Personnel at Karachi Airport during WWII
Lahore High Court in the 1880s. Before partition, this building served as the High Court of United Punjab in British India and still serves serves as the High Court of Punjab, Pakistan
Frere Hall and the statue of Queen Victoria, Karachi (1888)
Illustrious Bengalis at Dhaka University Sir Jadunath Sarkar(eminent Mughal historian,far left),Saratchandra Chattopadhyay(writer),Sir John Anderson,,Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy,Sir AF Rahman
India and the World’s First Official Air Mail by Airplane
Jain Nuns in the New Jain Temple, Ahmedabad, 1928
Jain Temple Complex, Kolkata
Khyber Pass, The Frontier of India (1941)
KSRTC Bus Station, Thrissur
Mahatma Gandhi with a friend in South Africa, circa 1900
One of the earliest photographs of the Badshahi Mosque and Ranjit Singh's Tomb in Lahore (1859). The top of the minarets of the mosque are missing as they were replaced by cannons by Sikhs to fight against the British in 1857
Part of the City of Patna, on the River Ganges - 1795
Photograph of a silver zenana carriage at Baroda(Vadodara), Gujarat(1895)from the Curzon Collection
Sarla Thakral, was only 21 year old when she became the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license (1936)
Sayajirao Gaekwad of Baroda, 1880
The Karachi Municipal Corporation Building in 1939
The Maharaja of Mysore Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV and his brothers and sisters in 1895
The university marksheet of Satyendranath Bose . (The name 'boson' is derived from his surname)
Times of India Newspaper Office in Bombay, taken on the Occasion of the Diamond Jubilee in November 1898.
View of a temple around Wangut in the Sindh Valley, Kashmir - 1869 , by John Burke
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