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

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

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

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Living through Partition . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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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) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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?

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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” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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India at war and mining accidents . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.