Some rare pictures on 1947 INDIA N PAK!!!

Here are some rare pictures of the time of partition....


Aug. 15, 1947: Mountbatten swears Nehru in as Prime Minister of India

TRAIN TO PAKISTAN; India 1947. Trains packed with refugees - Hindus and Sikhs headed for India, and Muslims headed for Pakistan - were convenient targets for gangs of killers on both sides of the border. Inadequately protected 'Refugee Specials' were typically stopped, and the occupants butchered, several times in the course of the journey.

The dead - Punjab, 1947

1971: Indira Gandhi reviews the troops, in the context of militaryand diplomatic preparations for the Bangladesh War.

 

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Ghandhiji Addressing people

Direct Action Day: Calcutta, Aug.16, 1946.

Nehru and Gandhi at AICC meeting, July 1946

Mountbatten arrives at Delhi airport; received by Nehru and Liaquat Ali. March 25, 1947

 

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1948: The news of Gandhi's assassination hits the streets. A stunned crowd gathers in Calcutta.

1948: Crowds in New Delhi wait for a glimpse of Gandhi's funeral procession.

A Library being divided at the time of partition. My heart trembles to see this sight and it is tough to imagine the state of the nation at the moment when people needed to hold hands.

 

[enigma]

I see no pics.....Where are the pics???
I think u have forgotten to upload the pics...

 

[deya]

dude pics cnt b seen.........

check out da error n put da pics again, wud love 2 c them.....

deya

 

[sid_8888]

hey ... this topic is really very interesting but where are pics:SugarwareZ-064: