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India Independence 1947 Stock Photos

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Citizens celebrate India's independence from British rule in the streets of Calcutta.

Independence Day

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Muslim women boarding a train at New Delhi in India to travel to the newly independent Pakistan.

Muslim Passengers

India, Pakistan, Independence

Nehru declares India's Independence 1947. Jawaharlal Nehru first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after...

Nehru declares India's Independence 1947.

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Lord Louis Mountbatten and Lady Edwina Mountbatten surrounded by children in New Delhi, at the time of Independence.

British Culture, Independence, Crowd of People

Jawaharlal Nehru and Lord Mountbatten Declare Indian Independence in Constituent Assembly, Delhi 15 August 1947.

Jawaharlal Nehru and Lord Mountbatten Declare Indian Independence in Constituent Assembly.

India, Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru

Gandhi visits Lahore 1947. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.

Gandhi visits Lahore

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Touring India during the partition riots following Independence 1947. Gandhi . Was the preeminent leader of the Indian...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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First Independence Day of India celebration , Bombay now Mumbai , Maharashtra , India , 15 August 1947 .

First Independence Day

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First Independence Day of India celebration , Bombay now Mumbai , Maharashtra , India , 15 August 1947 .

First Independence Day

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Viceroy of India, lord Mountbatten with lady Mountbatten return to India after attending Pakistan's independence 1947

Viceroy of India, lord Mountbatten with lady Mountbatten return to India

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Kher addressing meeting on the day India got Independence at Gowalia Tank, Bombay , Maharashtra, India, 15 August 1947 .

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Pakistani leaders 1947: Mohammed Ali Jinnah ; Sir Sikander Hayat Khan , Sir Nizam-ud-Din with Liaquat Ali Khan .

Pakistani leaders 1947 including Mohammed Ali Jinnah.

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Nehru listens as the Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten; declares India's Independence 1947. Jawaharlal Nehru first Prime Minister of India and a...

Nehru listens as the Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten; declares India's Independence 1947.

India's Independence

Man lies dead in the street during a conflict between Hindus and Muslims in India. 1947.

Corpse In Street After Hindu-Moslem Riot

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One of the greatest mass transfers of population in the history of the world has been going on since the recent creation of the two independent...

People Near Train Tracks in Station

Pakistan, India

1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1900-1979 British Admiral Viceroy of India untill Mountbatten saying good-bye to Indians after India had become...

1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1900-1979 British Admiral Viceroy of India untill Mountbatten saying good-bye to Indians after India had become independent

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Viceroy of India, reading India and Pakistan's declarations of independence over the radio in New Delhi.

Declaration Of India'S Independence

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah politician, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until Pakistan's...

Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, India

Photograph of Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India, declaring Indian Independence in the Constituent Assembly, Delhi. Dated 1947.

Jawaharlal Nehru.

Jawaharlal Nehru, India

Mahatma Gandhi with Abdul Ghaffar Khan' in Peshawar India in 1947.

Mahatma Gandhi with Abdul Ghaffar Khan in Peshawar India.

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Indian refugees crowd onto to trains as a result of the creation of two independent states, India and Pakistan. Muslims flee to Pakistan and Hindus...

Indian Refugees Piling on Trains

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Indian statesman Jawaharlal Nehru moves the resolution for an independent republic in a historic moment at the Constituent Assembly in New Delhi....

Birth Of A Nation

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Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru addresses parliament after Independence and partition 1947.

Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru addresses parliament after Independence and partition 1947.

Jawaharlal Nehru, Speech, India

Social History, Partition in India, pic: September 1947, Moslems waiting to leave for Pakistan as they seek protected transport to Dot Purana Qila,...

Social History. Partition in India. pic: September 1947. Moslems waiting to leave for Pakistan as they seek protected transport to Dot Purana Qila, an ancient fort in Pakistan, where many refugees had gathered.

India, Screen Partition, Pakistan

India- Armed soldiers join Moslem refugees as they crowd one of the very few modern vehicles on the trek to the Moslem state of Pakistan.

Soldiers and Crowd Piled on Top of Car

India, Independence, Pakistan

May 20, 1947 : During the talks which preceded the independence of India, the head of the Muslim Indians League Ali JINNAH met with the Maharadjah of...

Partition Of Punjab 1947 : Meeting Between Junnah And The Maharadjah Of Patiala

India, Sikhism, Punjab - India

Here is a scene made at the height of the celebration in Bombay on August 15th of Indian independence. More than $00,000 persons participated in this...

Bombay, India Celebrating Independence

India, Independence, Pakistan

This undated photo taken circa 1947/1948 shows Sikh people eating free food at a relief camp at Khalsa college in Amritsar following unrest in the...

INDIA-PAKISTAN-CONFLICT-PARTITION-HISTORY

India, Pakistan, War

In the Council House library, New Delhi the Nationalist party held a preliminary conference before the Constituent Assembly met to hammer out a new...

Party Conference

India, Crowd of People, Meeting

Lord Mountbatten Viceroy of India at the ceremony marking the independence of India 1947.

Ceremony marking the independence of India.

India, Independence, India's Independence

Lord Mountbatten with Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Fatima Jinnah at Pakistan's independence in 1947.

Lord Mountbatten.

Pakistan, Independence, India

Gandhi with Jawaharlal Nehru, during a meeting of the All India Congress, Bombay, India. Jawaharlal Nehru first Prime Minister of India and a central...

Gandhi with Jawaharlal Nehru, during a meeting of the All India Congress, Bombay, India.

Mahatma Gandhi, Independence, India

Social History, Politics, Asia, The Partition of India and Pakistan, pic: 1947, Muslim refugees from India at a refugee camp

Social History. Politics. Asia. The Partition of India and Pakistan. pic: 1947. Muslim refugees from India at a refugee camp.

India, Refugee, Pakistan

Jawaharlal Nehru and Lord Mountbatten Declare Indian Independence in Constituent Assembly, Delhi 15 August 1947.

Jawaharlal Nehru and Lord Mountbatten Declare Indian Independence in Constituent Assembly.

India, Jawaharlal Nehru, Louis Mountbatten - 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

This photo taken in August 1947 shows Indian soldiers walking through the debris of a building in the Chowk Bijli Wala area of Amristar during unrest...

INDIA-PAKISTAN-CONFLICT-PARTITION-HISTORY

India, Pakistan, War

Sitting in the Constituent Assembly after independence is Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, known as 'The Frontier Gandhi' for his leadership in the North West...

Frontier Gandhi

India, Independence

Indian statesman Jawaharlal Pandit Nehru , who, on India's independence in 1947, became the first prime minister. Original Publication: Picture Post...

Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister

Lord Mountbatten Viceroy of India at the ceremony marking the independence of India 1947

Lord Mountbatten Viceroy of India at the ceremony marking the independence of India 1947

India, Louis Mountbatten - 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Independence

An Indian girl, one of the many thousands of Muslims heading for the Indian free state of Pakistan. Carries a goat as the refugees proceed on the...

Refugees to Pakistan

India, Pakistan, Refugee

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Indian nationalist leader and statesman, who was the first prime minister of independent India, arriving at London airport.

Nehru In London

Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru, India

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi with Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru. 1947. Gandhi . Was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi with Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, India

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Touring India during the partition riots following Independence 1947. Gandhi . Was the preeminent leader of the Indian...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

India, Mahatma Gandhi, Riot

Viceroy of India, lord Mountbatten with lady Mountbatten return to India after attending Pakistan's independence 1947.

Viceroy of India.

India, Pakistan, Independence

In Karachi, after the British Empire declared India independent and created Pakistan, Ali JINNAH gave his investiture speech as governor general of...

Investiture Speech Of Ali Jannah At The Head Of Pakistan

Pakistan, India, Independence

Pen held in the hand of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. . was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.

A pen held in the hand of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. 1947. Gandhi . Was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Independence, India

Indian independence activist, writer and educator Hansa Jivraj Mehta, the Bombay delegate, in conversation with Indian political activist and poet...

Hansa Jivraj Mehta & Sarojini Naidu

New Delhi, India: From a state coach drwn by six horses, Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten, shake hands with the public upon arrival at Indian...

Lord and Lady Mountbatten

India, Crowd of People

Jawaharlal Nehru and Lord Mountbatten at the declaration of Indian Independence, 15 August 1947. Nehru was a leader of Indian National Congress...

Jawaharlal Nehru and Lord Mountbatten at the declaration of Indian Independence.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Crowds at New Delhi watching a motorcade on Independence Day.

Crowd At New Delhi

India, Fourth of July

Photograph of Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India, declaring Indian Independence in the Constituent Assembly, Delhi. Dated 1947.

Jawaharlal Nehru.

India, Jawaharlal Nehru, Independence

One of the greatest mass transfers of population in the history of the world has been going on since the recent creation of the two independent...

Citizens Checking Migration Information

Refugee, Pakistan, India

India's boycott of British cloth: Followers of Gandhi burn goods from Bradford and Manchester. Seventeen years later, Mahatma Gandhi, the man who had...

Politics - India'a Boycott of British Cloth

Indians celebrate in Delhi during the declaration of Independence Day in India. August 15th 1947.

Indians celebrate in Delhi during the declaration of Independence Day in India

India, Celebration, Archival

Lord Mountbatten at the declaration of Indian Independence, 15 August 1947. Lord Louis Mountbatten 1900-1979, was the last Viceroy of India.

Lord Mountbatten at the declaration of Indian Independence.

India's Independence, Louis Mountbatten - 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Delhi

The national flag of India is hoisted at Times Square to mark Indian Independence Day on August 15, 2020 in New York City. The national holiday...

The National Flag Of India Hoisted In Times Square To Mark Country's 74th Independence Day

USA, India, Flag

First Indian Independence Day Celebration , Bombay now Mumbai , Maharashtra , India , 15 August 1947 .

First Independence Day

India, India's Independence, Archival

Muslim refugees, carrying their personal belongings and leading beasts of burden, shown on the long trek to the Muslim free state of Pakistan.

India Independence

India, Refugee, Pakistan

India: As Bombay Celebrated. First Ladies. Lady Colville, wife of Bombay's Governor, and Mrs. B. G. Kher, wife of the Premier, were seated side by...

Ruling Dignitaries at Indian Independence Day Ceremony

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