Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
© Anil Kausalyayan, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
In 1932, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession, the Jam Sahib brought vanished days back to Nawanagar with a lavish hand.
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Ann Sancho would be in better health, said her husband, if she did not worry quite so much about him.
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In the year that Ranjitsinhji put aside his bat to concentrate on being the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, journalist A. G. Gardiner looked back on his dazzling career.
Photo by John Boyd (1865-1941), from the City of Toronto Archives via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
At the very centre of Sir Robert Peel’s idea of policing was the constable’s beat: a few streets, shops and families that he must know and care about.
© West Midlands Police. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police reiterated that what they liked best was a policeman who never arrested anyone.
Pierre Prévost (1764–1823), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Chinese merchant Lien Chi tells a colleague that English liberties have little to do with elections, taxes and regulations.