Adil Najam
Here is a new installment of the ATP Picture Quiz for you. Who are these people? Where are they? What are they doing? And, when do you think this picture was taken?
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Well at least the classroom is full and they seem to be paying attention (maybe to the photographer). Will we still see attentive students in a college class today?
I could go no further than the benches which were still the same when I left Govt.College some 3 years ago…
Interesting picture from so far back. I wonder what became of these individuals over time.
Well, at least I got the physics part correct… :)
As Hussain has already said … its “Pakistani students in freshman physics class at the Government College.
Location: Lahore, Pakistan
Date taken: December 1947
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
Size: 1280 x 953 pixels (17.8 x 13.2 inches ”
Its a bit of cheat really, so the prize should go to ‘Hussain’ who I note has alreadt posted the correct answer already! …..
The picture is here ….
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=6bdb 52d57b25845b&q=site:tbn0.google.com+lahore+student s+1947&usg=__CyTAjCIie4PCI6gr_PtL8s5Q2n0=&prev=/im ages%3Fq%3Dsite:tbn0.google.com%2Blahore%2Bstudent s%2B1947%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den&um=1
and there are some others as well. Note the women tucked around a corner in another of the sets.
Margaret Bourke-White took some stunning images from around the gloge in the 1940’s …. many from the sub continent at partition.