These 4 beautiful doors in a courtyard of Jaipur City palace represent different seasons and dedicated to different Gods.

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Timeline on a tree

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Thus ended the longest exile of animal history

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Rural House types of South Asia

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Lodi Garden, New Delhi, 1912 and 2005.

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Purana Qila (Old Fort), Delhi. 1940s and today.

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'The Monsoon Girl', Photograph by Brian Brake, 1960, India.

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How to write good.

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Monsoon Rains, Moonghyr, India. 1967. Photograph by Raghubir Singh.

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East India Company after getting foothold in India in 1761.

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All the Bond Girls till Skyfall

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Interpreting the shape of the Moon in art

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Japanese Spider Crab

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Island fortress of Murud-Janzira, off the west coast of India.

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Elements and their origin

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Ruins of ancient Indian University of Nalanda (India), destroyed in medieval times by fanatic invaders.

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This camel hair art in rajasthan, India

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A young woman of Ouled Nail tribe displaying her dowry of gold coins. Photograph by Lehnert & Landrock, 1905, Algeria.

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Taj Mahal (1850s and now)

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White men's burden (circa 1890)

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Jal Mahal (Water Palace), Jaipur

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Palam airport, 1970

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Moti Dungri, a small fortress on a hillock in city of Jaipur (India).

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Lucknow, India (1850s)

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Ajmeri Gate, Jaipur, a woodblock print by Japanese artist Yoshida Hiroshi, 1931.

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Transformation of Sunder Nursery in 5 years.

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Global Warming is real

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Sonargarh Fort, Rajasthan, India

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I made a guide explaining how different types of rocks got their names

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1842 Painting of city of Delhi by Rajasthani artist. It was painted on the ocassion of Maharao of Kota's visit to Nigambodh Ghat in Delhi. Details in the comment.

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Mehrangarh Fort with city of Jodhpur (India) surrounding it.

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Posters have been changed, everything else is unchanged, Delhi 1960s.

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Panorama of Delhi, a five meter long painting made in 1840s. The painting is important as it shows buildings of delhi which were mostly destroyed in the aftermath of the revolt of 1857. Vantage point is Lahori Gate of Red fort. (India) [9216x1210]

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For history enthusiasts (credit:MadMughalMemes)

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Padmadurg, off the west coast of India

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CP after this pandemic is over

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A train passing through fortification walls in Aravali hills, Udaipur, India. (Old photo)

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Sajjangarh, Udaipur, India.

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Newly built Ashok Hotel (1950s)

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Plan of the city of New Delhi, India, 1910s. The city was built as capital of British India which was shifted from Calcutta (Kolkata).

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A perfume shop in Bombay, 1890 (painting by EL Weeks)

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Rare aerial photograph of Delhi from the time when walls of Delhi were still standing.

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Minto Bridge, 1990

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One of the gates of City Palace, Udaipur (Rajasthan), India. Iron spikes were placed on the gate at the height of elephant's head to deter them from breaking open the gates.

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Model of Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, India

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Walled city of Jaipur, India

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Taj Mahal, 1980.

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On its foundation day, here is a beautiful modern rendition of Walled City of Jodhpur (India). It was founded as capital of semi arid Kingdom of Marwar in mid 15th century.

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Siege of Chittorgarh Fort, 1303. (Rajasthan, India)

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A certificate issued to an Indian for sitting in chair in presence of a British official.

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Dust Storm, Rajasthan (1983) by Steve McCurry

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In top 3 photos is shown the aftermath of revolt (houses demolished for security) and last one is current photo. Details in comment.

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1826 map of the world showing degree of civilization by an american geographer William Woodbridge.

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Undivided India's map on brass plate (1867)

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Qutb Complex, New Delhi, India.

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A street in Bombay(Mumbai), 1867 lithograph painting

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A miniature version of Jaipur style Haveli.

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British destroyed these houses after the revolt to have clear field in front of Red fort. Photograph of 1858 by F Beato (Before) and 1895 by Lawrey & co (After).

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Durgadas Rathore, the man who challenged mughal authority in Rajasthan and carried relentless struggle against Aurangzeb for decades. He even lured Aurangzeb's son Akbar to rebel against Aurangzeb after Akbar was defeated by Rajputs in Aravali hills.

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Bhopal, India (Late 19th century)

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How times changed (Once a village called Khairpur, now Lodi garden)

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One of the oldest map of Delhi (Hand-drawn) [4792x6117]

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Exaggerated relief map of India

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Discoverers of the Pacific.

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Bird Migration in the Americas

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Air Map of the World centred on Delhi.

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How to age a map

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Goa, India (16th century)

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Time to put sanctions on Japan for producing such accurate weapon of mass destruction.

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Chandni Chowk (1760) according a European who has never been to India.

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Past, Present and the Future of India Gate's iconic canopy. (Link for news in the comments)

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Indian Ocean Floor, 1967 National Geographics Map. [4522x3442]

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How many upvotes for this bad boy on his birthday.

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Panorama of Delhi, 1840s painting of Delhi showing 360° view of delhi. Keep patience if you have slow net connection as image is 4.5MB large, you will not be disappointed. Details in the comment.

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Harijan Girls, Kutch (1989) by Photograph by Jyoti Bhatt

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18th Century India (B/W)

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Lt Gen Niazi, Commander of the army in east Pakistan gave this statement just before the war. 18 days later he surrendered unconditionally.

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Urbanisation of Delhi in last 30 years. Two satellite images one of 1989 and another of 2018 juxtaposed.

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painting of a south indian temple

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Old Soviet map of Delhi (Relevant article on how russian secretly map the entire world in the comments)

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This picture says it all.

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Anyone else fed up this shit

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Types of Rural Houses in Indian subcontinent.

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Qila-i-Kuhna Mosque in Purana Qila through time. It was built by Sher Shah Suri in 16th century. The ruins of houses in older pics are remnants of a village called Inderpat which was relocated by British when New-Delhi was built. Houses were levelled.

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Purana Qila, then (during partition) and now.

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Indian soldiers holding a Nazi flag which they had captured at Libyan Omar, December 1941

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Chennai, 1960s

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Rash Behari Bose, the indian freedom fighter with his wife Toshiko in Japan.

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Sunday book market, New Delhi

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Tree map of Lutyens Delhi by Pradip Krishnen

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Connaught Place and Central Park, 1930s.

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A frog try to swallow a small lighting bulb

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Gwalior, 1960s.

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Hello in 50 languages

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Sun temple, Modhera

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Aerial photo of Tughlaqabad fort, Feb 2012.

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When British were building New Delhi, they had plans to dam the Yamuna and make a big Lake in North Delhi with Wide Boulevard on its banks, the plan didn't materialised. Also earlier plan was to build New Delhi in the north of Old Delhi but later the current site south of the Old delhi was approved.

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Sucking invaders' d*ck

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Rajah leaving for hunt, 1885 (EL Weeks)

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Places visited by Gautam Buddha

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Poorly trained & poorly armed Razakars fought alongwith Hyderabad State forces against Indian Army in 1948. Here some Razakars can be seen training with just spears and swords because not every one had a gun.

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Aerial View of Humayun's Tomb

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Cross Section of Kowloon Walled city, Hong Kong. This was the densest place on the earth before it was demolished by the authorities. Nearly 50,000 people lived in just 2.6 hectare. (4500x1636)

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Purana Qila (late 18th century)

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Red fort from Jama Masjid, 1875. Photograph by John Edward Sache.

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Varanasi (then Banaras) in 1985 during the flooding of Ganga, Photo by Raghubir Singh.

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See how green Delhi is now, compared to a hundred years ago. Place- Lodi Garden. PC: Trees of Delhi (Pradeep Krishen)

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Finally went to Park after a long time, Amaltas are blooming these days.

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Guide to Boozing

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Mughal Garden (OC)

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Monsoon Rains, Photograph by Raghubir Singh, 1967. Moonghyr, Bihar.

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Map in a card deck

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Indian Ocean Floor, 1970s National Geographics Map.

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Berlin, Germany (1688)

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Conic Sections

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Places visited by Gautam Buddh

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Lt Gen AAK Niazi's statement just 18 days before he signed the instrument of surrender.

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Prince of Wales (Later King Edward VII) was entertained at a banquet organised inside main cave temple of Elephanta in 1875. The lunch was attended by 400 people. British authorities clearly didnt realise that banquet and picnics were in violation of sanctity of a temple.

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Anti Russian Satirical Map by a Japanese student during Russo-Japanese war, 1904.

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Sonar Qila (Golden fort) of Jaisalmer is one the few living forts in the world.

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Ancient trade routes of India.

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The Explorers

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India-Pak Border line is the only border that is so clearly visible from space in night time. It's because there are flood lights installed by India all along the border to prevent illegal crossing.

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Jodhpur Lancers marching in city of Haifa after freeing the city from Turks in WW-1. This was one of the last cavalry charges in the world. Little know fact they also saved Baha's faith's leader from the gallows too Turks were trying to execute him for heresy.

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British Empire

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For cucks who always say Indian didn't oppose muslim invaders

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Some gora played bitch lasagna at T series office 1-2 months back.

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Red fort right now

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The Indian Subcontinent partition map proposed by Chaudhary Rehmat Ali (the guy who also proposed the term Pakistan)

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Pan Am vintage poster for India.

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True indology is in interesting twitter war with a suspended IAS Ashish Joshi.

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Some famous markets of Old delhi

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Banaras (Varanasi), 1970s.

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Anyone questioning Sawarkar must read this excerpt from Mahatma Gandhi's speech at then Madras.

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