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The Harappa website provides glimpses of South Asia before 1947 with a huge variety of multimedia content.

This site contains over 2000 pages of images, slideshows, illustrated essays, sounds, and video. Here is just a small portion of what you will find at this website dedicated to documenting the archeological, historical, and cultural perspectives of the Indus Valley, Pakistan, and India.

  • Photographs, lithographs, engravings, and postcards of Delhi, the Himalayas, Punjab, and Kanpur.
  • Hawkshore’s India explores Lahore to Gwalior. A remarkable 19th Century album of India and Pakistan with images by Bourne and Sache.
  • In the Magic Latern India 1895, join the American photographer William Henry Jackson on an exquisite hand-colored tour of India.
  • The March of Time features 1941 outtakes and newsreels from the early morning streets of Delhi to Nehru’s release from prison and Jinnah’s Bombay meeting.
  • Audio recording of Mahatma Ghandi’s “My Spiritual Message” in 1931.