Historic pictures of India
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| Historic pictures of India by Kulwant Roy
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| Indian National Army personnel are all military grace as they welcome Gandhi at an event at the Harijan Colony, Delhi, in 1946. 
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Jawaharlal Nehru addresses the press in Delhi in 1947, shortly before Independence.
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| Jinnah, sitting on a sofa like a modern potentate, surveys the scene from atop a truck at a procession in Allahabad in the 1940s, during a Muslim League session |
| Workers gather to collect their wages from a pay van, at the Bhakra Nangal project area in the 1950s .jpg)
Sardar Patel and the Maharaja of Patiala confer during a meeting of the Phulkian Union, an umbrella body of princely states, in Patiala, shortly after Independence. 
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| Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah in a heated conversation. 
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| Nehru with his grandson, Rajiv Gandhi, and his daughter, Indira Gandhi, in an undated photo. 
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| Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Jawaharlal Nehru walk to a meeting while Sardar Patel is pulled alongside in a rickshaw. Roy's access provided him with ample opportunities for informal photographs. .jpg)
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| Wrestling champ 'Daula' pins down his English adversary 'Clark', to the patent dismay of the referee, at a fundraiser for the Lahore Warplanes Fund, the Police Spitfire Fund and the Minto Park Fund, in Lahore in the late 1930s 
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Kulwant Roy (born,1914, Lahore, then in India) was a photographer working for Associated Press. He was personally responsible for several iconic images of the Indian independence movement and the early years of the Republic of India..jpg)