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Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Jaipur, India

Indian princes and British Army officers in the Hyderabad contingent polo team, c1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cricket, curry and cups of tea: India's influence on Victorian Britain

My favourite place: Jaipur

A boy sitting on a rock ledge above a refugee camp, October 1947. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The bloody road to partition: 8 landmark moments in the turbulent story.

A Calcutta pavement, c1961

After Partition: colony politics and the rise of communism in Bengal.

Living through Partition.

Bombay, the East India Company's port on the Malabar Coast of India, 1755. Company trading vessels are depicted in the foreground and quayside warehouses and buildings behind. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The chaotic conquest of India.

Two men carrying old woman as they migrate, following the Partition of India in 1947

10 historical turning points for modern India.

Young women working in a textile mill in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1943

Famine and freedom: how the Second World War ignited India.

Yangguan Museum and a statue of Zhang Qian. (Getty Images)

Global encounters of the ancient kind

Bhimrao Ambedkar, May 1946. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891–1956).

A portrait of Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty which ruled over much of India from 1526 to 1858. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

How people make the past.

A vintage photograph showing an unknown man standing behind a stall selling lemonade, root beer and ice cream – among other things.

Q&AWho invented lemonade?

Q&AWhere does the word ‘posh’ come from?

A British sergeant measure the chest sizes of Indian men

Books interview with Yasmin Khan: "By the end of the war, few people in the Raj believed it could continue to exist".

India at war and mining accidents.

The many lives of India.

The history of India and a terrible explosion.

Khudadad Khan

My history hero: Khudadad Khan (1888-1971).

An illustration depicting the battle of Naseby, arguably one of the most significant land battles in British history. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

20 important battles that shaped Britain

Image by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Calcutta 1905.

Two women from South America. Six centuries ago South American civilisations matched the west in some respects. (Getty Images)

The wonder of the west

Dandy Gandhi to naked Fakir: the Indian leader's revolutionary dress code.

Hampton Court and the Amritsar massacre.

The myth of native-bashing.