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A ‘curious’ gold mask, four rings: When the UK’s India Office sold jewels and silver in 1862

The ornaments had transferred to the India Office from the East India Company.

Margaret Makepeace
· Oct 09, 2022 · 01:30 pm
For the British Indian army, maintaining soldiers’ gardens was serious business

When new troops moved into the barracks, regimental and company gardens were inspected and the cost of any necessary repairs was paid from the garden fund.

Margaret Makepeace
· Aug 10, 2022 · 07:30 pm
Better urinals: How a sanitation panel aimed to improve life in Kolkata’s Fort William in 1860

Bad toilets and excessive drinking were the reasons for the rampant sickness in the station, administrators believed.

Lesley Shapland
· Jul 24, 2022 · 07:30 pm

1,000 years before the Greeks, ancient Babylonians had developed a unique form of trigonometry

Clay tablets retrieved from the lost cities in present-day Iraq show one of the oldest examples of applied geometry from the ancient world.

Daniel Mansfield, The Conversation
· Aug 08, 2021 · 09:30 pm
A tiny police wing is trying to bring back the thousands of idols stolen from Tamil Nadu

But is the department any match for the smugglers?

Vinita Govindarajan
· Jul 30, 2017 · 11:30 am
These illustrated Persian manuscripts depict the highs and lows of love

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