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What is the history of the India-Pakistan conflict?
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, British rule ended in the Indian subcontinent.
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Queen Victoria, Empress of India
Portrait of Queen Victoria, from an 1882 photograph by Alexander Bassano. She had...
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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton.
From Forty-One Years in India: From Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief, by Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar (Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts), 1901
British merchant ship, Bombay (Mumbai), India
British merchant ship approaching Bombay (Mumbai) Harbour; oil on canvas by J.C....
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John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence.
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Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th marquess of Lansdowne
Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th marquess of Lansdowne, detail of portrait...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon
George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon.
BBC Hulton Picture Library
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
Public Domain
Helena Blavatsky
Helena Blavatsky, detail of an oil painting by Hermann Schmiechen, 1884; in a private...
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Jiddu Krishnamurti and Annie Besant
Jiddu Krishnamurti and Annie Besant, 1933.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore.
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Aga Khan III
The progressive and politically active imam Aga Khan III, at a Paris horse racetrack...
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John Morley
John Morley, c. 1890–94.
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Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge, oil painting by Sir William Orpen, 1919; in...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
New Delhi: All India War Memorial arch
All India War Memorial arch (popularly called the India Gate), New Delhi, India;...
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1st Viscount Chelmsford
1st Viscount Chelmsford
The Mansell Collection/Art Resource, New York
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
Courtesy of the Pakistan Embassy, Washington, D.C.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi, 1931.
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Massacre of Amritsar site
Portion of a wall in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab, India, with bullet marks...
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Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi with delegates of the Indian Round Table Conference, London.
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Motilal Nehru
Motilal Nehru.
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Gandhi, Mohandas: Salt March
Statue depicting Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi during the 1930 Salt March.
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Subhas Chandra Bose
Subhas Chandra Bose.
Netaji Research Bureau, Calcutta
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru, photograph by Yousef Karsh, 1956.
Karsh—Rapho/Photo Researchers
Liaquat Ali Khan
Liaquat Ali Khan.
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Beohar Rammanohar Sinha: Quit India Movement
The Quit India Movement depicted in a mural painted by Beohar Rammanohar Sinha, c....
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Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell.
Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum, London
Louis Mountbatten
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten.
© Karsh/Woodfin Camp and Associates
Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian independence leader and unifier of India, Vallabhbhai Patel.
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