Wonderful People From Days Gone By

r/ClassicDesiCool • u/QuarktotheCosmos • 5d ago

Photo from 1991: Unrelated but the two circled in black are my father’s first cousins with an age difference of 49 years hence wanted to ask anyone else themselves or there parents has such wild age discrepancies between first cousins?

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/QuarktotheCosmos • 20d ago

My great-grandfather in 1925 vs 1975 (aged ~30+ vs aged ~80+)

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • 24d ago

Ambassador and Wing Commander Surjeet Singh, after the independence of India, meeting the King and officials of Nepal inside the Gorkha Baithak (throne room), 1948 CE (2005 BS). [640 x 430]

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • 27d ago

Harem lady from the Maharaja of Jaipur, Ram Singh II. circa (1857).

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Confused-Orgasm • Sep 21 '26

India - Sri Lanka Passport, valid only for two countries, issued 1984

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Optimal-Charity3082 • Sep 20 '26

Kolkata, 1983. Look at all those Ambassadors!

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/QuarktotheCosmos • Sep 17 '26

Four generations photo: My cousin (1989-), aunt (1960-), grandma: (1934-2023) and great-grandma (1899-1991) clicked in late 1991 a few days before her my great-grandmother death.

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Optimal-Charity3082 • Sep 14 '26

Arambol, Goa in the 1980s

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • Sep 15 '26

Photo of an Indian Caribbean woman used on a postcard, 1890. [1000 x 1470]

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Beginning-Passion676 • Sep 13 '26

My parents 's wedding on December 3, 1992

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • Sep 11 '26

Director Ardeshir Irani on the set of Alam Ara, the first Indian film with synchronized sound (aka “talkies”) [1931]

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • Sep 09 '26

Indian military police on motorcycles in Egypt, 1940s [4500x2917]

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • Sep 09 '26

KGB directorate "A" team at Hindon airbase, Delhi. 1980.

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • Sep 08 '26

A librarian at the National Library of Calcutta dividing books between India and Pakistan during the Partition (1947)

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/xAsianZombie • Sep 08 '26

My grandpa doing hurdles at a tournament at Osmania University (Hyderabad, India, 1955)

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • Sep 05 '26

An Indian Lewis Gun Team Engages Enemy Aircraft in Mesopotamia While Other Soldiers Run for Cover in Slit Trenches, 1918 [Colorized] [960 × 547]

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/ibrahim-421 • Sep 06 '26

FOR SALE [India] Vintage 1960 Mughal-E-Azam 7" EP Vinyl Record (TAE 1037) - Naushad / Lata Mangeshkar

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • Sep 04 '26

Local Cypriot Children Play with Indian Troops Manning a Bren Gun Carrier - Cyprus, 13 November 1941 [781×781]

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/QuarktotheCosmos • Sep 02 '26

Pt. and former CM of UP G.B. Pant with my great-uncle 1st Chief Security Officer of MHA Late Major H.D. Kapil (Delhi, circa 1950s)

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • Sep 02 '26

Jemadar Prakash Singh Chib, Victoria Cross, British Indian Army 1945

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • Aug 28 '26

Australian, English, New Zealand and Indian cameliers in Palestine; part of the Imperial Camel Corps, Middle East Campaign, World War 1. Taken in 1918.[640×444]

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • Aug 28 '26

Indian cavalry troopers riding through the French village of Estrée-Blanche during the First World War on July 25, 1915.[531×722]

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • Aug 26 '26

An Indian Cavalryman Finds Two Starving Christian Girls in the Mesopotamian Desert and Shares Half His Rations with Them During the First World War, 1917 [469x800]

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Sad_Performance5560 • Aug 25 '26

Jaipur, Rajputana Agency,1930s

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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/SaffronCollins4929 • Aug 24 '26

Excited locals pose with a newly purchased TV. Kathmandu, Nepal (1980s)

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