A Domestic Cheetah In India 1930-1940
April 26, 1926 Troops in a street in north Calcutta now Kolkata where they are restoring order during unrest between Hindus and Muslims. Riots are believed to have been provoked by playing music outside a mosque when Muslims were assembled at prayer.
April 26, 1926 Troops in northern Calcutta (now Kolkata) during disturbances between Hindus and Mohammedans with Marwaris. (Getty Images)
August 24, 1946 A section of the huge crowd which attended the Muslim League Direct Action Day meeting in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in protest against British Cabinet negotiations on India. Getty Images)
August 1940 The colleges detachment of the Lahore University Training Corps, learning drill, bayonet fighting and rifle shooting.
August 1947 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (1869 - 1964) making his speech on the midnight session of the Indian CA when the new self-governing dominion of India was formed. Chinese, American and Dutch diplomats are seated to the left. Getty Images)
Breakfast meeting between Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten 1947
British air force auxiliaries parade on the pier after landing in India. India, October 1944
Circa 1915 Trams passing the grand facade of Victoria Railway Station in Bombay (now Mumbai). (Getty Images)
circa 1940 A mounted police guard outside a mosque in Calcutta, India after riots and religious disturbances
circa 1940 Indian infantrymen wearing gas masks over their turbans during exercises in preparation for duty in the Second World War.
circa 1940 Soldiers manning a wireless van during Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi's (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) 73 hour fast, receive news about the riots from police headquarters at Lalbazar
circa 1940 The University Training Corps from Lahore, India, march with rifles during a training exercise.
circa 1940 The University Training Corps in Lahore, India, learning to shoot
In this June 9, 1939 image, Mahatma Gandhi waiting for a car outside Bifla House, Bombay, on his return from Rajkoy. Amongst the group with him are Pandit Nehru and Vallabhai Patel. ( Getty Images)
Indian servants carrying a young British child in a palaquin at a popular summer resort.
In this August 10, 1942 picture, demonstrators lying on the ground to avoid clouds of tear gas released by the police when they refused to disperse after protesting against the arrest of Gandhi and other National Congress leader
July 1940 Five soldiers saluting at Indian Army camp in the desert nr. the Great Pyramids
Mahatma Gandhi at a spinning wheel during a 'Charlea' demonstration in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh. Getty Images)
Mahatma Gandhi at the beginning of a fast. with Hussain Shaheed Suharawardy
May 17, 1934 One of the Bengalis who had tried to assassinate the Governor of Bengal, Sir John Anderson, being carried away from the scene of the incident
Members of the Indian National Congress on the dais at Haripura. Seth Jamnalal Bajaj, Darbar Gopoldas Dasai, Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) and Subhas Chandra Bose. ( Getty Images)
National volunteers, supporters of Mahatma Gandhi march through the streets of Madras (now Chennai) carrying the banner of home rule, 1930. (Getty Images)
November 27, 1946Gurkha troops board a train at Foor-Poon, en route for the riot centre of Taregea. Getty Images)
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru with Mahatma Gandhi. (PIB)
Police confront Indian protesters in Bombay (now Mumbai) after a meeting of the National Congress at Esplanade Maidan was banned. An argument about the ownership of the esplanade ensued and soon escalated into a small battle
Snake Charmers In India In 1930-1940
The final spark was provided by the rumoured use of cow and pig fat in the newly-introduced Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle cartridges. Soldiers had to bite the cartridges with their teeth before loading them into their rifles,
Under the Government of India Act 1858, the Company was deprived of its involvement in ruling India, with its territory being transferred to the direct authority of the British government. circa 1880
Young boys attend an open air school in the village of Kotgarh, close to the Himalayan Mountains in northern India, circa 1940
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