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Pyre for the poor.

Heaped on a pile of wood, emaciated famine victims await cremation, 1901.

How not to doze off.

A student with hair tied to a nail concentrates on his studies, 1905

Welcome to India, My Lord.

Inauguration of the Gateway of India, 4th December, 1924

The political deadlock.

Jinnah and Gandhi in Bombay, September, 1944.

The proposal of Independence.

Sir Stafford Cripps and Mahatma Gandhi at Birla house, 12th April, 1942

The helpless emperor.

The last Gurkani emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, May, 1858

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How the Bengal army came to be an army of robust Sepoys.

Delving into the fascination of populating the Bengal army with impressive Prussian type native Sepoys.

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And it took a mutiny to change policing: Why after the Mutiny of 1857, the old Kotwali system was replaced.

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The death of Charlotte Chambers during the Mutiny of 1857.

During the mutiny of 1857 the gruesome and ritualistic murder of Charlotte Chambers was a rallying call.