India's Old Photos !!!

1. Two men taking their morning wash at a public pump on the streets of Calcutta, India. 

 2.1950: A boatman propels his boat with a single oar along the Jumna river, in the background rises the Taj Mahal.

 3. 1950: A man buying fruit from a street stall in front of an advertising hoarding promoting several films in New Delhi, India.

 4. 1950: Men having an early morning wash in Calcutta's busy Hooghly river, with its large freighters in the background. 

 5. 1950: Boats travelling the backwaters near Cochin, in the state of Kerala.

 6. 1950: A farmer and his oxcart trudge past the girders of the Howrah bridge over the Hooghly river in Calcutta.

 7. 1950: Operators at work in the New Delhi Telephone Exchange. 

 8.1950: Women labourers in the coalmining industry in India. A large number of them are employed in the industry but they work above ground.

 9. 1950: An Asian gives a friend a haircut, carefully shaving his scalp.

10. 1950: A beggar sits in the middle of the street in Banares, India. 

 11. 1950: Men bringing in man-drawn rickshaws to be added to the large number of them stacked up in front of the Deputy Commioner of Traffic's office at Madras after a ban forbidding their use. They are to be replaced by cycle rickshaws, a combination of rickshaw and bicycle.

 12. 1950: Sikh women worshippers, they are segregated from the men.

 13. 1950: In the forefront a water buffalo stands beside a tilled field, in the background the rear of the Taj Mahal and a small mosque also in the grounds.

 14. 1950: Masseurs giving a chest massage to bathers after their morning dip. 

 15. 1950: A steam locomotive on the narrow gauge mountain railway which runs between Darjeeling and Calcutta, India.

16. 1950: Crowds of pilgrims on the waterfront at Allabahd, India during Kumbha Melha, a month long Hindu bathing festival.

 17. 1950: Emaciated beggars in the streets of Muttra, in India, where a famine is ravaging the population.

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