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The funeral of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India in New Delhi.

Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India dies in New Delhi, India. Flashback scene from 1947 as thousands of people assemble and listen to Nehru speak from the Red Fort as India achieves Independence. View of Nehru talking with U.S. President John F Kennedy while walking in a garden in the early 1960s. Indian national flag lowered to mourn for his death. A large crowd gathered to witness his funeral according to Hindu rituals. A woman joins hands towards the dead body of Nehru and weeps.

Date: 1965, January 1
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056490
People gather to celebrate freedom in India on the occasion of Indian Independence.

Events around time of division of India into separate states of India and Pakistan. Lord Mountbatten declares India as a free country in Karachi and New Delhi. Crowd gathers at the India Gate to celebrate the freedom. Lord Mountbatten and Lady Mountbatten in jeep. Celebration in the cities. Mohammad Ali Jinnah addresses people. New flag of Pakistan flies on the flag pole. Officers and Mohammad Ali Jinnah salute. People walk on the street of free India. Jawaharlal Nehru addresses people. Indian flag on the flag pole.

Date: 1947, August 15
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028623
Indian leaders and members of All-India Congress get the offer of dominion status from Lord Mountbatten in New Delhi, India.

Britain's Lord Mountbatten offers Indian leaders an unconditional plan for freedom in New Delhi, India. Members of All-India Congress headed by Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru hear British offer of dominion status.

Date: 1947, June 12
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028622
A large number of people perform namaz (Salat) together in front of the Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi, India.

A map shows spread of Islam in Europe in 1683. A man performs a namaz in Delhi India. Muslims in a mosque perform namaz (Salat). The Jama Masjid Mosque (Jama Masjid Rd, Jama Masjid, Chandni Chowk, New Delhi, Delhi 110006, India) in Delhi, India with many people in front of it. They perform namaz (Salat) together.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050628
Jews reading from Torah in Jerusalem; Islamic principles of design from mosques in Jerusalem, India, and Tunisia.

Slate notes Muhammad's respect for ideas of Christians and Jews. Jews are seen reading from the Torah and in prayer. A Jewish Rabbi leads a prayer. View of Dome of the Rock at Temple Mount, Jerusalem. Other Muslim mosques: the Moti Masjid (Pearl Mosque, M64V+P7J, Lal Qila, Old Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi 110006, India), seen from the Diwan-e-Khas or Red Fort of Delhi, India. in the Lahore Fort or Shahi Qila (H8Q7+56P, Fort Rd, Walled City of Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan), Punjab, British India. View of the courtyard of the Grand Mosque of Kairouan (M4J3+GMR, Rue de La Kasbah, Kairouan, Tunisia) in Tunis, Tunisia. Slate states that Islamic decoration is confined to Arabic script and geometric or floral designs. Architecture of a mosque shows columns, pillars, and arches at the side of a courtyard. As previously noted, the columns and the roof of the mosque are decorated only with Arabic script, floral and geometric designs. A decorative grill in a mosque.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050626
Burning buildings and dead bodies on streets due to riots in Delhi, India.

Indian civilians during post-independence riots in Delhi, India. Exterior of Jama Masjid or the Main Mosque of Delhi, built by Mughals. A crowd assembled in front of the Jama Masjid Mosque (Jama Masjid Rd, Jama Masjid, Chandni Chowk, New Delhi, Delhi 110006, India). They bow in prayer. Smoke rising in the foreground. Burning buildings. Streets littered with dead bodies. A body is carried on a litter. A long line of Indians carrying their belongings walk through streets. A great crowd assembled in front of the Jama Masjid Mosque. Men, women, and children wait in a line for water ration. People in lines holding several utensils for water.

Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065526
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