Independence Day 2018: Glimpses of Pre Independence India During The British Raj
On the 72nd year of Indian independence, here are some glimpses from our distant past that show how different life in the British Raj was.
Washermen (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
Rural sports (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
British men and women during the Raj (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
British bungalow (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
The famine genocide of 1876-1878 (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
The Burmese High Commissioner for India (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
Members of the Mahar community (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
Pedicure by an Indian servant (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
A blacksmith and a cobbler (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
A British man on a horse (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
British officers encounter an elephant (Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons)
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