Madras Courier- The First Newspaper in Madras

Madras Courier, the city’s first newspaper was published on October 12, 1785. It was a weekly publication founded by Richard Johnston, a printer with the East India Company, and carried official information relating to the Madras Presidency in not more than four or six pages. The Madras Gazette, Government Gazette and other new publications cropped up causing the Madras Courier to wind up its operations in 1821.

Madras Presidency Silver coins...Courtesy: V.S.Prabhu

 

US Consultate Building Chennai in 1969

US Consulate building, Madras, 1969

Rare Photographs of Chennai / Rare Photographs of Madras

 

An altogether different view of Government House. This house has been in existence for more than 250 years and has been used as the residence of Madras governors till independence
Chandralekha



GEMINI CIRCUS.'s MADRAS TOUR.

Perhaps waiting for Sir Thomas Munro to come back and rule Madras Presidency. The second oldest British statue in Madras opened on 23rd October 1839.
Picture : Bourne and Shepherd 1875 AD.



world war 2 air raid warnings. the irony was when the Japanese really came for us , a power cut prevented the sirens from blaring


Jammi Buildings




 

MOST RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF INDIA

We see a portrait of India's first Test Cricket Team on its maiden tour to England in 1932.
 

The uniform of the Indian Army soldiers in 1850.

 
This image of Tagore and Einstein brings geniuses from worlds apart together.

 
Tagore is greeted by Helen Keller.

 

Subhash Chandra Bose with his most trusted friend and driver, Colonel Nizamuddin.

 
The last surviving picture of Bhagat Singh while he was jailed.

 
The Times of India building at Elphinstone Circle in 1898.

 
Indian ambulances lined up in Chennai in the 1940s

 
Mahatma Gandhi during his time in South Africa in 1900.

Train at 1895
 
 
 A Young French boy introduces himself to Indian soldiers who had just arrived in France to fight alongside French and British forces in First World War, Marseilles, 30th September 1914

 

Chandpal Ghat, Kolkata. Bathers reached the river through tunnels under the railway line, 1910's

 

Dhyan Chand playing for India vs. France in the 1936 Olympic Hockey semi-finals

 

The Great Gama and his brother Imam Baksh square off during an exhibition match held in front of the Red Fort - New Delhi, 1940's

 

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Reviewing the Troops of Azad Hind Fauj - 1940's

 

Pavement School, Gelatin Silver Print - Jaipur, 1948

 
Girls School in Jaipur, Rajasthan - 1870's

 

Earliest known photograph of the Taj Mahal taken by Dr. John Murray of East India Company in the 1850s.

 

All of Mahatma Gandhi's worldly possessions, captured in 1938.

 

Interior of the Sikandar Bagh after the slaughter of 2,000 rebels by the 93rd Highlanders and 4th Punjab Regiment, April 1858. Photo at the J Paul Getty Museum. Photo at the Brown University Library.









 
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose With youth followers. — with Kaviyarasu Nrk.
 

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose With Adolf Hitler.

 

Chandra Shekhar Azad had vowed that he would never be arrested by the British police and kept his promise by using his last bullet to shoot himself in the head. He was Chandra Shekhar Azad, one of the most noteable Indian revolutionaries, who joined the revolution for the Indian independence when he was only 15 years old.

 
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar with Mrs. Savita Ambedkar

 

Japanese Army personnel who blind-folded Indian POWs (Prisoner of War) and used them for target practice.

 

The first day Indian Constituent Assembly on 11th Dec, 1946. We see Sardar Patel in the foreground.

  

Air India employee manually updating the airline flight schedule in the year 1963.

 

Nobel laureate C V Raman with his spectrograph which helps by acting as a fingerprint in identifying molecules.

 

Country's first prime minister show off some of his swordsman skills circa 1955.

 

Panditji getting ready for a swim with his trademark Khadi topi still on.

 

Bombay office of Times of India celebrating its Diamond Jubilee in November, 1898.

 

Tata launch of Mercedes Benz Telco in 1954, in Mumbai.

 

The last Nizam of Hyderabad greets Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at the Begumpet airport after the success of Operation Polo.

 

Photograph of the Taj Mahal taken by Dr. John Murray of East India Company in the 1850s.

 
Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara as he is greeted by the elderly in a village near Delhi, 1959.

 

Narayana Murthy in IIT Kanpur, 1969

 

Mr. President Pranab Mukherjee, happily lighting a pipe in his younger days.






letter written by Gandhi to Hitler pleading him to stop reducing humanity to a 'savage state'.



 
BEST tram service in Bombay in the year 1952. The services were eventually discontinued and made way for buses to become the sole transport carrier from BEST.



 
Congress campaigning in the country's first General Elections in January, 1952.



 
Peek into how the driver's license looked in India, 1943. This one belonged to a certain Pte O'Leary.



 
The first Indian lady pilot, Sarla Thakral, at 21 years of age.