British Library
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Images: Where were these miniatures of Sikh rulers painted?
JP Losty
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In images: The anger in India against the Raj-appointed Simon Commission
John O’Brien
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How harpists (including one from Benaras) were portrayed in the tales of the Buddha’s former lives
Maria Kekki
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A look back at banned Indian political pamphlets – and why Orwell may not have approved of them
Pragya Dhital
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My search for ‘Black Peggy’, a Bengal native who was seduced with a false promise of marriage
Margaret Makepeace
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Mayalee: The story of an Indian dancing girl who stood up to the British Raj
Katherine Butler Schofield
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Rudolf von Leyden: The German-born cartoonist who became Bombay’s top art critic in the 1930s
Mollie Arbuthnot
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When an Englishwoman visited Mughal courts and transcribed their music in Western-style notation
Katherine Butler Schofield
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These new digitised manuscripts throw new light on one of the greatest port cities in Southeast Asia
Annabel Teh Gallop
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Photos: The medieval-era Qurans with 30 leaves, one for each day of the month
Ursula Sims-Williams
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Portrait of a hero: New 3D modelling technique brings to life a celebrated British Indian trooper
Malini Roy
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Photos: Treatises on Hindustani music from Akbar’s reign that shaped music theory for centuries
Katherine Butler Schofield
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The quest to preserve the ‘Lotus Sutra’, Buddha’s final teaching on salvation
Mélodie Doumy
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Photos: The workout regimen designed by the British for Indian engineers in early 20th century
Margaret Makepeace
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Photos: Old Chinese gazettes offer a glimpse of life during the Qing Dynasty
Emily Mokros
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An ancient Anglo-Saxon book of plants has a cure for the common cold, but you may not like it
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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Photos: A book on British rule in India, banned and held seditious, was still widely translated
Pragya Dhital
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Essays by ‘Bevan Boys’: How Britain convinced Indians to join engineering training during WWII
John O'Brien
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How a Hindu munshi’s Persian work came to influence English scholarship on Indian religions
Ursula Sims-Williams
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Photos: Chinese and Islamic influences come together in the Qurans printed in China
Colin F Baker Ursula Sims-Williams