Rare Photographs In Indian History

Rare Photographs In Indian History

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The daughter of an Indian maharajah seated on a panther she shot, sometime during 1920s. 

The Grand Trunk Road , built by Sher Shah Suri, was the main trade route from Calcutta to Kabul

A group of Dancing or notch girls began performing with their elaborate costumes and jewelry.

A rare view of the President's palace and the Parliament building in New Delhi .

Women gather at a party in Mumbai ( Bombay ) in 1910.

A group from Vaishnava, a sect founded by a Hindu mystic. His followers are called Gosvami-maharajahs 

An aerial view of Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi , built between 1650 and 1658.

The Imperial Airways 'Hanno' Hadley Page passenger airplane carries the England to India air mail, stopping in Sharjah to refuel. 

LORD MACAULAY'S ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT, 2 FEBRUARY, 1835
''I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.''

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Electoral Information for Hyderabad Voters

Electoral Information for Hyderabad Voters

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Electoral Information is available here for Hyderabad voters visit:
http://www.ghmc.gov.in/election1/knowurassembly_const.asp

and enter the details to locate your name in the electoral list.

If you have the constituency no. , part no. and Sl. no. then replace them in the following link to get your details.

http://www.ghmc.gov.in/election1/voterslip.asp?contituency=49&partno=332&SLNO=216

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Union Territories, Lt. Governors & Administrators

Union Territories, Lt. Governors & Administrators

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Lt. Governors & Administrators

Union Territory	Lt. Governors & Administrators
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Lt. Gen. (Retd) Bhopinder Singh, PVSM, AVSM (Lieutenant Governor)
Chandigarh	Shri Shivraj V. Patil (Administrator)
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	Shri Satya Gopal, IAS (Administrator)
Daman and Diu	Shri Satya Gopal, IAS (Administrator)
Delhi	Shri Tejendra Khanna (Lieutenant Governor)
Lakshadweep (UT)	Shri J.K. Dadoo
Puducherry (UT)	Shri Iqbal Singh

***Updated as on Feb 21, 2010 Source: GOI***

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States, Capitals, Chief Ministers and Governors

States, Capitals, Chief Ministers and Governors

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STATE	CAPITAL	CHIEF MINISTER	GOVERNOR
Andhra Pradesh	Hyderabad	Shri K. Rosaiah	Shri E.S Lakshmi Narasimhan
Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar	Shri Dorjee Khandu	General (Rtd.) J.J. Singh
Assam	Dispur	Shri Tarun Gogoi	Shri Janaki Ballav Pattanaik
Bihar	Patna	Shri Nitish Kumar	Shri Devanand Konwar
Chhattisgarh	Raipur	Dr. Raman Singh	Shri Shekhar Dutt
Delhi		Smt Sheila Dikshit
Goa	Panaji	Shri Digambar Kamat	Dr. Shivinder Singh Sidhu
Gujarat	Gandhinagar	Shri Narendra Modi	Dr. Kamla Beniwal
Haryana	Chandinagar	Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda	Shri Jagannath Pahadia
Himachal Pradesh	Simla	Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal	Smt. Urmila Singh
Jammu and Kashmir	Srinagar(Summer) Jammu(Winter)	Shri Omar Abdullah	Shri N. N. Vohra
Jharkhand	Ranchi	Shri Shibu Soren	Shri M.O.H Farook
Karnataka	Bangalore	Shri B. S. Yeddyurappa	Shri H.R. Bhardwaj
Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	Shri V. S. Achuthanandan	Shri R.S. Gavai
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Shri Rameshwar Thakur
Maharashtra	Mumbai	Shri Ashok Chavan	Shri K. Shankarnarayan
Manipur	Imphal	Shri Okram Ibobi Singh	Shri Gurbachan Jagat
Meghalaya	Shillong	Dr. Dethwelson Lapang	Shri Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary
Mizoram	Aizawl	Shri Pu Lalthanhawla	Lt. Gen. (Retd.) M.M. Lakhera, PVSM,AVSM,VSM
Nagaland	Kohima	Shri Neiphiu Rio	Shri. Nikhil Kumar
Orissa	Bhubaneshwar	Shri Naveen Patnaik	Shri Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare
Puducherry		Thiru. V. Vaithilingam
Punjab	Chandigarh	Shri Parkash Singh Badal	Shri Shivraj Patil
Rajasthan	Jaipur	Shri Ashok Gehlot	Smt. Prabha Rau
Sikkim	Gangtok	Shri Pawan Chamling	Shri Balmiki Prasad Singh
Tamil Nadu	Chennai	Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi	Shri Surjit Singh Barnala
Tripura	Agartala	Shri Manik Sarkar	Shri Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil
Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	Kumari Mayawati	Shri B.L. Joshi
Uttarakhand	Dehradun	Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal	Smt. Margaret Alva
West Bengal	Calcutta	Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee	Shri M.K. Narayanan

***Updated as on 21 Feb, 2010 Source: National Portal Of India***

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Council of Ministers

Council of Ministers

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Cabinet Ministers

Serial Number	Portfolio	Name of Minister
1.	Prime Minister and also In-Charge of the Ministries/Departments viz: Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; Ministry of Planning; Ministry of Water Resources; Department of Atomic Energy; and Department of Space	Dr. Manmohan Singh
2.	Minister of Finance	Shri Pranab Mukherjee
3.	Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution	Shri Sharad Pawar
4.	Minister of Defence	Shri A.K. Antony
5.	Minister of Home Affairs	Shri P. Chidambaram
6.	Minister of Railways	Km. Mamata Banerjee
7.	Minister of External Affairs	Shri S.M. Krishna
8.	Minister of Steel	Shri Virbhadra Singh
9.	Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises	Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh
10.	Minister of Health and Family Welfare	Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad
11.	Minister of Power	Shri Sushil Kumar Shinde
12.	Minister of Law and Justice	Shri M. Veerappa Moily
13.	Minister of New and Renewable Energy	Dr. Farooq Abdullah
14.	Minister of Urban Development	Shri S. Jaipal Reddy
15.	Minister of Road Transport and Highways	Shri Kamal Nath
16.	Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs	Shri Vayalar Ravi
17.	Minister of Textiles	Shri Dayanidhi Maran
18.	Minister of Communications and Information Technology	Shri A. Raja
19.	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas	Shri Murli Deora
20.	Minister of Information and Broadcasting	Smt. Ambika Soni
21.	Minister of Labour and Employment	Shri Mallikarjun Kharge
22.	Minister of Human Resource Development	Shri Kapil Sibal
23.	Minister of Mines and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region	Shri B.K. Handique
24.	Minister of Commerce and Industry	Shri Anand Sharma
25.	Minister of Rural Development and Minister of Panchayati Raj	Shri C.P. Joshi
26.	Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Minister of Tourism	Kum. Selja
27.	Minister of Food Processing Industries	Shri Subodh Kant Sahay
28.	Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports	Dr. M.S. Gill
29.	Minister of Shipping	Shri G.K. Vasan
30.	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs	Shri Pawan K. Bansal
31.	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment	Shri Mukul Wasnik
32.	Minister of Tribal Affairs	Shri Kantilal Bhuria
33.	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers	Shri M.K. Alagiri

Ministers of State with Independent Charge

Serial Number	Portfolio	Name of Minister
1.	Ministry Civil Aviation	Shri Praful Patel
2.	Ministry of Science and Technology; Ministry of Earth Sciences; and Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office; Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs	Shri Prithviraj Chavan
3.	Ministry of Coal and Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation	Shri Sriprakash Jaiswal
4.	Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Ministry of Minority Affairs	Shri Salman Khursheed
5.	Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises	Shri Dinsha J. Patel
6.	Ministry of Women and Child Development	Smt. Krishna Tirath
7.	Ministry of Environment and Forests	Shri Jairam Ramesh

Ministers of State

Serial Number	Portfolio	Name of Minister
1.	Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers	Shri Srikant Jena
2.	Ministry of Railways	Shri E. Ahamed
3.	Ministry of Home Affairs	Shri Mullappally Ramachandran
4.	Ministry of Planning and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs	Shri V. Narayansamy
5.	Ministry of Commerce and Industry	Shri JyotiradityaScindia
6.	Ministry of Human Resource Development	Smt. D. Purandeswari
7.	Ministry of Railways	Shri K.H. Muniyappa
8.	Ministry of Home Affairs	Shri Ajay Maken
9.	Ministry of Textiles	Smt. Panabaka Lakshmi
10.	Ministry of Finance	Shri Namo Narain Meena
11.	Ministry of Defence	Shri M.M. Pallam Raju
12.	Ministry of Urban Development	Shri Saugata Ray
13.	Ministry of Finance	Shri S.S. Palanimanickam
14.	Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas	Shri Jitin Prasad
15.	Ministry of Steel	Shri A. Sai Prathap
16.	Ministry of External Affairs	Smt. Preneet Kaur
17.	Ministry of Communications and Information Technology	Shri Gurdas Kamat
18.	Ministry of Labour and Employment	Shri Harish Rawat
19.	Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution	Professor K.V. Thomas
20.	Ministry of Power	Shri Bharatsinh Solanki
21.	Ministry of Road Transport and Highways	Shri Mahadev S. Khandela
22.	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare	Shri Dinesh Trivedi
23.	Ministry of Rural Development	Shri Sisir Adhikari
24.	Ministry of Tourism	Shri Sultan Ahmed
25.	Ministry of Shipping	Shri Mukul Roy
26.	Ministry of Information and Broadcasting	Shri Mohan Jatua
27.	Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment	Shri D. Napoleon
28.	Ministry of Information and Broadcasting	Dr. S. Jagathrakshakan
29.	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare	Shri S. Gandhiselvan
30.	Ministry of Tribal Affairs	Shri Tusharbhai Chaudhary
31.	Ministry of Communications and Information Technology	Shri Sachin Pilot
32.	Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises	Shri Arun Yadav
33	Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports	Shri Pratik Prakashbapu Patil
34.	Ministry of Road Transport and Highways	Shri R.P.N. Singh
35.	Ministry of External Affairs	Shri Shashi Tharoor
36.	Ministry of Water Resources	Shri Vincent Pala
37.	Ministry of Rural Development	Shri Pradeep Jain
38.	Ministry of Rural Development	Ms. Agatha Sangma

***Updated as on Feb 21, 2010 Source: http://www.cabsec.nic.in ***

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