Independence Day 2022: Celebrating 75 years of freedom with pictures from archive

Jawaharlal Nehru's first speech after Independence 'Tryst with Destiny' (Photo credit: Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi)

Independence Day Celebrations (Credit: Archeological Survey of India, New Delhi)

Mahatama ji, Rajendra Babu and Mahadev Bhai (Champaran - Karmayogi of Satyagraha) (Photo credit: Bihar State Archives)

Jawaharlal Nehru singing the Indian Constitution

Champaran - Mahatama Gandhi with Mrs Kasturba Gandhi during the Satyagraha (Photo credit: Bihar State Archives)

Captain Ram Charan Singh who composed the patriotic song 'Kadam Kadam Badhaye Ja', plays the violin for Gandhiji at the Harijan colony, 1945 (Photo credit: National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi)

Indian leaders Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru and Jinnha agree to partition

Independence week inauguration by Pt Jawaharlal Nehru. He was addressing the crowd at the public meeting held on Gandhi ground (Photo credit: National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi)

Gandhiji during Kheda Satyagraha days 1918 (Photo credit: Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, Delhi)

Mahatama Gandhi during the Satyagraha Struggle 1916 (Photo credit: Bihar State Archives)

Mahatma Gandhi Ji's ally in Champaran Satyagraha (Photo credit: Bihar State Archives)

Mahatma Gandhi observing the houses destroyed in the riots (Masaudhi, March 1947) (Photo credit: Bihar State Archives)