India

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Raj nostalgia: reconsidering the stories through which we view empire

World Histories 10

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Mahatma Gandhi in Britain

Gandhi in Britain

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

My favourite place: Jaipur, India

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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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When 21 Sikh soldiers stood against 10,000 men: the battle of Saragarhi

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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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

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

Global encounters of the ancient kind

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

My history hero: Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891–1956)

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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

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