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William Dalrymple (Photo by David Hartley/Shutterstock)

“Like ancient Greece, India is one of the seedbeds of civilisation” | William Dalrymple on putting India back at the centre of global history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood "The making of our new world began in China just over 40 years ago" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kavita Puri’s hidden histories: “I wish that there was no need for specialist history months” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A 14th-century depiction of a lady and youth playing a game of draughts (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

War and pieces: 5 games from history that were about much more than fun . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video podcast Indian experiences in WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Joya Chatterji, emeritus professor in the history of modern south Asia at the University of Cambridge (Photo by Abhishek Bali)

Joya Chatterji on 20th-century south Asia “The nation is a very novel idea, and imposing it on millions of people is hard work”

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Historian Simon Schama, 2015 (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Simon Schama “Humans are a marvel of ingenuity, yet we seem to exist in this great pond of primitive terror and paranoia” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Police disperse a mob attacking a Hindu temple in Calcutta (now Kolkata) during the violence of Direct Action Day, 1946

Why we should remember… Direct Action Day

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A refugee family in a camp in Pakistan after the partition of British India in 1947

Enduring trauma: the legacy of partition . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The partition of India: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kavita Puri "Many south Asian diasporic families don’t know of their First World War links" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, next to a Regency portrait of Kitty Kirkpatrick.

Inspiring Bridgerton: the real South Asian women in Regency-era England

A follower is reflected on a framed photograph of Bhimrao Ambedkar

Bhim Rao Ambedkar: India’s ‘untouchable’ hero

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Manan Ahmed Asif

How Hindustan became India . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sumita Mukherjee discusses India’s women’s suffrage movement, and how it connected to the wider struggle for Indian independence

India’s Suffragettes . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.