Viral Photo: The history of India is something that most of us have read about in books, school, and on web, and our ancestors most certainly seen it personally. Documents and artefacts from that time period, however, are today valued for their ability to provide information on our history. It has astonished many internet users that someone just posted his grandfather’s nearly 92-year-old British Indian passport.
User shares historic passport
Anshuman Singh, who now resides in Pakistan, stated on Twitter that his grandpa had to have been approximately 31 years old when the passport was issued to him in Lahore. Taking to Twitter, he wrote “My Grandfather’s “British Indian Passport”, issued at Lahore in 1931. He must’ve been 31 years old then.” The user claimed that the passport belonged to Panjab Rai and that it was valid in Kenya Colony and India until 1936. The images also reveal that the passport had a portrait of the owner and his Urdu signature.
In one of the page in the passport, “These are to request and require in the Name of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance, and to afford him every assistance and protection of which he may stand in need.”
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The post has accumulated 100,000 views and more than a thousand likes since being shared. It was called a “treasure” and a “prized possession” by many. Even some claimed that the passport ought to be shown at a museum.
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