Indian Cricket Team Rare Pictures and Videos

Hi to all. Cricket is a lovable game. I am a great fan of Cricket and of course India is My favorite team. Being a cricket lover I used to admire legendary players from whole cricket world. Inspite of the stardom, they also are common human being

If India is participating, I used to watch majority of the matches. I am a big fan of Sachin. Master Blaster. What a player he is!!! All Indians are proud of that batting genius, He is also there in this collection

Here I am with some rare pictures of Indian Cricket Team. You may find pictures as old. Still they are rare. In what sense these pictures are rare? That what you are thinking now? Watch it. They are funny as well.

Very rare pics of some of India's Special Forces, specialty units

The Indian special forces units are a secretive bunch, and only a relative handful, perhaps up to 50, pics of them exist on the net, most of them from news photos.

Here are some pics from several units that I don't think have ever been posted before


Indian Navy
Naval Marine Commandos (MARCOS)





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Indian Army
Pic of Indo-Tibetan Border Police training.:



Rare pics of Sashastra Seema Bal, a paramilitary tracker/guards force tasked with policing the remote areas of the India Nepali border:









Parachute Regiment pics:









Finally, some ultra-rare pics from the website of the family of martyred Major Udai Singh, SM, who laid down his life saving his fellow soldier during an intense firefight with Pakistani al-Queda terrorists of Lashkar-e-Toiba, and earned the Sena Medal posthumously for his bravery.

The website has very rare pics of his unit, Paracommando/22 Special Forces, "The Mavericks", in action:


^ Captain Udai Singh, RIP 




^ Training demonstration

Indian flag replaced British flag on August 15, 1947 as India got independence

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The newsreel announcing India's independence to US audiences on August 15, 1947

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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.

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Crowd of revellers gather to celebrate Independence from Britain around Rasina Hill in New Delhi on 15 August 1947.

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At the stroke of midnight on August 14, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru addressed the new nation through his speech ‘Tryst with Destiny’

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Original Speech : Tryst with Destiny’

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Father of the Nation’ was assassinated on January 30, 1948

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Eyewitness: Mahatma Gandhi Assassination

Mahatma gandhi Funeral Cremation

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Indira Gandhi moved in along with her sons Rajiv and Sanjay with father Jawaharlal Nehru and became his close confidante

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In 1964 a towering figure of Indian politics Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru passed away

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In 1962, border dispute between India and China resulted in the Sino- Indian war in which India was defeated

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In the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, India routed Pakistan

 

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1971 India-Pakistan War; Indian Victory; Bangladesh Created

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Simla Agreement was signed between India and Pakistan that aimed to maintain LoC and that the two nations would settle their differences through bilateral negotiations

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The Simla Agreement-1

The Simla Agreement-2

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