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A forefather of modern age artillery: The Gurkani Multi-Barrel Cannon.

One of the earliest forms of the volley gun known to man.
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History

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
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Vintage Years

Through the lens of a touring yank.

The Howrah Bridge spans across the Hooghly, 1947
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Vintage Years

Making it razor sharp.

A Mohammedan man sharpens a knife in British India, 1860
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Vintage Years

Faculty St. Xavier’s 1953-54.

Indian and Belgian professors pose for a photo, 1953-54
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Life and times

Mud, water, earth and an idol maker.

Life of a hereditary idol maker from continuing an ancestral occupation.
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Life and times

The benevolent, Mrs. A.B. Davis.

A library that was kept open for students by a former psychiatrist nurse
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History

They don’t play Billiards like this anymore.

An 18th century billiard table by C. Lazarus and sons inside a club that has been around since 1864.
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Places

The Himalayan village of Bhanara.

In legends that speak of serpent worship in the Himalayas, a village that finds repeated mention.
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Places

The Himalayan temple of Shirgan Naga at Bhanara.

Temple of a serpent deity who has his own unique legend in Himalayan mythology.
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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.
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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.
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Vintage Years

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.
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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.
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