12 Indian Documents And How They Looked Before India Got Independence

History is an interesting subject after all you get to know about events that happened in the past and the people who were responsible for it. India has seen drastic changes in almost everything right from being a British colony to being ruled by British people to getting Independence. And all these are still preserved because of our ancestors in the form of documents, forms, receipt, passport, etc.

Someone on Reddit posted some of the documents from pre-independence India and this lead to finding more documents from that time.

1. The Bengal Film Journalists’ Association, Calcutta issued a Certificate of Merit to the film Ram Shastri for the Best Hindi Picture of the Year 1944.

2. A handwritten report card of high school from from pre-independence India in 1936

3. A British Indian passport

4. Maps from the time when India was pre-independent

5. A version of the telegram form from the pre-independence India

6. A 1890s telegram

7.Train tickets during the British rule

8. A postcard

9. A stamp paper

10. Telegraph stamps

11. Indian telegraph receipt 1912

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