3. INTRODUCTION
• The progress which we have written records is know
as Historic Period.
• But the man had lived on the earth for millions of years
before he developed the art of writting.
• The achivements of the human society before historic
period is called the Pre- Historic Period.
4. The daughter of an Indian maharajah seated on a panther she shot,
sometime during 1920s.
6. The Grand Trunk Road , built by Sher Shah Suri, was the main
trade route from Calcutta to Kabul .
7. The Indus Script
Indus Valley Civilization-One of the world’s first great urban civilization
Harappa Civilization-2700BC
8. First university Takshashila-700 B.C
Ayurveda- An earliest school of medicine known to humans
Sanskrit Language- Most suitable for computer software
12. An aerial view of Jama Masjid
mosque in Delhi , built between
1650 and 1658.
A rare view of the President's
palace and the Parliament building
in New Delhi .
13. A rare photo of Calcutta in 1835.
In India first railway was built between
Mumbai and Thane in 1852 and the
first passenger train ran between the
two stations, covering a distance of 34
km, on April 16, 1853.
14. A Scene from movie Raja Harishchandra, which premiered at Bombay's
Coronation Theatre on May 3 1913, was the country's first ever feature
film.
15. Subhas Chandra Bose in
Tokyo ... 1936
Last Viceroy of Independent India Lord
Mountbatten salutes the Indian national
flag hosted at India Gate as Lady Edwina
(second right) and India's first prime
minister Jawaharlal Nehru (right) looks on,
during Independence Day celebrations, in
New Delhi.
20. TRAIN TO PAKISTAN ; India 1947. Trains packed
with refugees - Hindus and Sikhs headed for
India , and Muslims headed for Pakistan - were
convenient targets for gangs of killers on both
sides of the border.
1948: The news of Gandhi's
assassination hits the streets. A
stunned crowd gathers in Calcutta.