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 Each World History PicturePack Collection covers the history of one the world's major areas.  Each Collection contains a thorough, in-depth series of visual lessons - each one a segment of history, told in beautiful large-size images and historical captions (articles). PicturePacks are inexpensive, and allow you to order just the historical content you need.  Created in html (web-based) format,  PicturePacks run in your own Windows web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator), so the PicturePack "look and feel" is friendly and familiar, and there is no installation and minimal user instruction. PicturePacks allow independent study, but they are also resources, designed to allow you to use the rich, varied content to create presentations, handouts, student reports, and much more.  Simple, clear instructions are included. PicturePack Collections are delivered on CD.

   
 

World History PicturePacks
  (Countries Beyond Europe)

      A History of Africa
     B Middle Eastern History
     C Latin American History
     D History of Japan
    E History of Korea
     F History of China
     G India, Pakistan, Afghanistan & Asiatic Russia
     H Southeast Asia, The Philippines, & Oceania
     I Australia, New Zealand, Canada & International Organizations
     

CONTENTS : India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Asiatic Russia

     

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 CONTENTS
 
World History PicturePack Collection G: 
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Asiatic Russia

 
 Everything listed below is included in this single PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.

IN01: Pre-Colonial India; the Mughal Dynasty A general view of the excavations at Mohenjodaro ● Terra cotta toy cow, with movable head ● Krishna playing the flute ● A scene from the Ramayana ● Shiva, one of the new gods, India ca. 1000 B. C. ● Brahmins from Bengal ● The warrior class, led by the king ● Members of the Vaishya or merchant class ● A man in a yoga position ● An Indian bride, around 1830 ● A bullock is honored on the third day of Pongal ● A gold worker ● A carved ceiling in the Jain temple ● Gautama Buddha with devotees ● A map of Asoka’s empire ● A water wheel ● The exterior of the Ajanta caves ● An Ajanta Cave 1 painting of a Bodhisattva ● A map of King Harsha’s empire, 606-648 A.D. ● Pallava temple at Mahabalipuram, ca. 7th century ● Dancing Shiva, Dravadian bronze from 12th century ● Qutb Minar, or the Tower of Victory, Old Delhi ● A map of the Sultanate of Delhi and the Rajputs ● Emperor Babur (1483-1530), founder Mughal dynasty ● Emperor Humayun (1508-1556) ● Akbar (1542-1605) most famous Mughal emperor ● A map of Akbar’s empire (in pink, above) ● Akbar playing parchesi ● Tulsi Das (1532-1623) ● Jahangir, fourth Mughal emperor (ruled 1605-27) ● Mumtaz Mahal ● The Red Fort, important historical monument ● The Juma Mosque ● Aurangzeb takes Shah Jahan prisoner ● Aurangzeb (reigned 1659-1707) ● Illustrations were an integral part of books ● Matchlock guns ● Nadir Shah, the Shah of Iran from 1736 to 1747 ● Shivaji (1627-80), founder of Maratha "nation." ● A Muslim Koran school ● Golden Temple at Amritsar, Sikhs’ holiest shrine ● Ranjit Singh, maharaja of largest Sikh kingdom ● Trading boats on the Ganges river, ca. 1835
 

IN02: The East India Company; Colonial BeginningsVasco da Gama and the ruler of Calicut ● A Portuguese ship of the 15th century ● Afonso de Albuquerque (1453-1515) ● De Castro's triumphal entry into Goa ● An Indian ruler receiving a French representative ● Joseph Francois Dupleix (1697-1763) ● William Hawkins ● Surat, a port and town in Gujarat, western India ● Mogul Emperor Jahangir giving audience to Sir Roe ● The English fort at Bombay, ca. 1672 ● Court of Proprietors at East India House, London ● Fort William, Calcutta ● Government House, Calcutta ● "Black Hole of Calcutta" was room in Fort William ● The meeting of Robert Clive with Mir Jafar ● Robert Clive (1725-1774) ● Emperor Shah Alam giving formal grant of Diwani ● Shah Alam, the 23rd Mughal Emperor (1759-1806) ● Warren Hastings (1732-1818) ● Lord Cornwallis taking the sons of Tippu Sultan ● Tippu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore (1783-99) ● The viceregal summer palace at Simla ● Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853) ● General Outram, received by Rajah of Travanco ● Lord James A.B. Ramsey Dalhousie ● A stagecoach for the transportation of mail ● School for education of Hindu females at Calcutta
 

IN03: The Sepoy Rebellion; the English and the Indian People Sepoys of the Madras army ● Bahadur Shah II, the last Mughal Emperor of India ● The Rani of Jhansi ● The relief of Lucknow, 1857 ● Rebellious sepoys being blown apart by cannon ● Reading Queen's Proclamation at Calcutta ● Map of British India and the major Indian states ● Lord Edward R. B. Lytton ● Lord George Nathaniel Curzon ● The Imperial Assemblage at Delhi, 1877 ● Lord and Lady Curzon on the "Grand Tusker." ● The practice of Sati, widow immolation ● The Supreme Court at Madras, ca. 1860 ● Starving natives in a residency during a famine ● Plague victims, ca. 1899 ● Traveling by railway in India around 1875 ● English family at dinner table with two servants ● Englishman in India dresses attended by servants ● Thugs in prison ● Front page of Oudh Ukbar newspaper, 1875 ● View of old and new Delhi in late 19th century ● Indian troops in France, October, 1914 ● Cotton bales on Cotton Green, Bombay, early 1900s ● Examining hall of Indian government opium factory ● An Indian government salt factory ● Ram Mohan Roy, Raja (1772-1833) ● Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1914) ● A village scene in Bengal, in the early 1900s
 

IN04: Gandhi and Independent India British soldiers patrols after Amritsar Massacre ● Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) ● Gandhi with followers during the Salt March ● Gandhi with Sarojini Naidu during the Salt March ● Indians arrested as result of article, 1930 ● 1930s procession to advocate boycott of liquor ● Abdul Ghaffar Khan with his followers ● Police raid on Congress House in Bombay, ca. 1930 ● Lord Pethwick-Lawrence's mission to India ● A benefit for untouchables ● Indian troops in Cyrenaica, North Africa, WW II ● Lord Louis Mountbatten ● Hindus leave Pakistan, 1947 ● Gandhi's body with mourners ● India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru ● Images of Nehru and Gandhi on a postage stamp ● Jawaharlal Nehru with Dalai Lama of Tibet, 1959 ● Nehru with Dr. Rajendra Prasad ● Tea workers on a plantation in Assam, ca. 1950 ● Modernization of railroads at Allahabad in 1966 ● India's first nuclear power plant ● The Nagarjunasar Dam in Mysore state ● Indira Gandhi meets with Nixon ● Moraiji Desai, Prime Minister of India 1977-79 ● Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ● A class in a village school, ca. 1950 ● Birth control class for women in a village, 1972 ● Homeless persons in Bombay, 1975 ● The home of a wealthy family in Calcutta ● Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister of India, 1984 ● Map showing India's strategic position 
 

IN05: The Histories of Pakistan and Afghanistan View of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Asiatic Russia ● Lahore, the second-largest city in Pakistan ● A busy street in modern Lahore ● Interior decoration of the Wazir Khan mosque ● A street in Srinagar, Kashmir, ca. 1857 ● Mohammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948) ● Muslims leave India, 1947 ● Parliament House in Islamabad ● Mohammad Ayub Khan, president Pakistan (1958-69) ● UN military observers study a map of Kashmir ● Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ● Mohammad Zia ul-Haq ● Badshahi Mosque, at Lahore ● Terraced agricultural fields in northern Pakistan ● Hydraulic press at Foundry and Forge Co. ● The Karachi shipyard ● The Tarbela Dam under construction in 1974 ● Women baking bread in a community kitchen ● Political map shows Pakistan & Western neighbors ● The Khyber Pass, near Peshawar ● Surrender to British of Dost Muhammad, 1840 ● The British army before Kabul ● An Afghan refugee in Pakistan, 1980 ● Osama bin Laden ● The U.S. war in Afghanistan, 2002 ● President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan 
  

IN06: The History of Asiatic Russia ● Map, Soviet Union and East and South Asia ● Doctors in Samarkand, early 1900s ● The Ukrainian steppe ● The Kremlin in Moscow ● Timur's tomb, the Gur-i-Mir in Samarkand ● Ulugh Beg had many cultural achievements ● Yermak in Siberia ● The city of Tyumen in 1911 ● A 1911 Prokudin-Gorsky color photograph ● Siberian Eskimos at East Cape, on the Bering Sea ● A Buryat horseman ● Trans-Siberian Railroad station in Vladivostok ● The Azova siege ● Mt. Elbrus in the Caucasus ● The ancient Georgian capital of Mtskhet ● Tiflis, Georgia ● Port of Batumi, Black Sea terminus for oil ● Nomads in Turkestan, ca. 1890 ● Georgian cavalrymen after capture of Khodzhent ● The Khivan expedition ● Russian troops on the Afghan border in 1886 ● Kirgiz (Kirghiz) nomads near Bukhara ● The Japanese military advance in Siberia ● A convict village in Siberia, early 1900s ● A Buryat with his motorcycle
  


 

 

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