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The Greco-Roman Buddha from Gandhara, the Kushan Period.

Sculpted in Gandhara, a statue that is among the first to show the Buddha in human form

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

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Wars of Humayun.

A list of battles of the second Gurkani emperor Humayun.

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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.

Why Indian Sepoys had preferred to enlist in the armies of the East India Company, between the 17th-18th century.

In the 17th century, monthly payments made service in the Bengal army a great attraction.

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

A vintage photo from 1900, and why policing changed in British India, from the Kotwali system of the Mughals.

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.