Asia

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

Have nuclear weapons helped to maintain global peace?

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

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D6XD6R Amber Fort - landscape with elephants on the Jaleb Chowk courtyard and main gate of Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

My favourite place: Jaipur

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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

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

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China in World War Two

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Living through Partition

View of Halong Bay taken from the top of an island. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Vietnam

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The lost objects of South Asia

West Berlin inhabitants wave at the newly erected Berlin Wall, 1961. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

What brought a thaw in the Cold War?

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Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, a PPP candidate (Pakistan People's Party), campaigning from the sun roof of a car. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007)

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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

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Silence: the history behind Martin Scorsese’s new film

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History quiz – Anglo-Saxons, Bright’s disease and the Byzantine army