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The Governor of Bengal accused the East India Company of turning a crisis into a humanitarian catastrophe.
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The dazzling throne of the Mughal Emperors has vanished from history, but not before Abdul Hamid Lahori had seen it.
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John Wood shares the wonder of the Indian cobra’s hood, in science and in myth.
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Francis Bain’s alternative Adam and Eve story left its own question unanswered.
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The animals in the jungle agree that amidst the drought, the sport of hunter and hunted has to be suspended.
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Sir Thomas Roe had some difficulty making an impression on Emperor Jehangir.
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Rudyard Kipling believed that a better appreciation of ancient Greece and Rome could help the English be less insular.