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&A Who invented lemonade?

The history of maritime travel could explain why we use the word 'posh' for the British upper classes. (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)

Q&A Where does the word ‘posh’ come from?

A British sergeant measure the chest sizes of Indian men

Second World War

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

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India at war and mining accidents

Lion Capital of the Pillars of Ashoka from Sarnath. (iStock / Getty Images Plus)

The many lives of India

First World War

The history of India and a terrible explosion

Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi

India: a land of contradictions

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£3 in my pocket: the pioneering migrants who came to 1950s Britain from India

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