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How did India look like in pictures, a hundred years ago?Originally Answered: How did India look like in pictures, a hundred years ago ?

India has always been a country of contrasts — and of incredible beauty.India has always been a country that is gloriously, exhilaratingly alive.

1. Man dives from the top of a 50 ft tower into a tank below — Fatehpur Sikri

2. State barge of the Maharaja of Kashmir — Srinagar

3. A man and his ox-cart — Kolkata

4. Rock-hewn temple — Elephanta

5. Parsi headmaster and his students — Uran, Navi Mumbai

6. Golden Temple — Amritsar

7. Mahapalika Marg — Mumbai

8. Colonnade at Dilwara Jain Temple — Mount Abu

9. Naldehra — Shimla

10. Inflating bullock-skin boats to cross the river — Banks of the Sutlej

11. Akbar’s Tomb, Sikandara — Agra

12. Temple pillars — Madurai

13. On the banks of the Ganga — Varanasi

14. Funeral procession — Agra

15. Lush country surrounding the Dilwara Temples — Mount Abu

16. Shepherds tend their flock — Mount Abu

17. Temple pond — Varanasi

18. Palace of Man Singh — Gwalior

19. Crossing the Jhelum — en route to Kashmir

20. Panchagni tapas

21. Shops on a busy street — Delhi

All images from Imgur 

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