Numerous conqueror's came into the subcontinent through the Khyber Pass, including Darius I of Persia, Alexander the Great, Mahmud of Ghazni, Muhammad of Ghor, Timur (known as Tamerlane in the west), Babur, Nader Shah and Ahmad Shah Durrani.
Maharaja’s College, Mysore is one of the oldest and most influential centres of higher education in southern India, closely tied to the making of the University of Mysore and to the Wadiyar dynasty’s education policy.
Indian workers were brought over by the British to the West Indian island of Jamaica between 1845 and 1917. Roughly 37,000 people were brought over under an indentured labor system, where they had to work on mostly sugar estates, where strict
Upper Topa in the Murree Hills was established by the British during colonial rule as a military base, and today hosts the Military College Murree at an altitude of over 2,000 metres.
The Black Hole of Calcutta was made famous by an account written by John Hollwell, now disputed.
In 1756, the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-daulah captured Fort William and took a number of European prisoners who were unable to escape.
One of the most ornate and lavish rooms within the Lahore Fort. Built during the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's 17th century reign, the Shish Mahal ("Shish" means mirror) is noted for its beautiful mirror work.
The Indian Pavilion at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition (Wembley) was designed as a major “showpiece” building in an Indo‑Saracenic/Mughal-revival idiom, explicitly modelled on iconic North Indian monuments (often described as drawing on the Jama
![Salutations de Kandy [Greetings from Kandy]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/greetings-kandy_0.jpg?itok=mKKetJaN "Salutations de Kandy [Greetings from Kandy]")
This was probably an advertising card for the Queen's Hotel, Kandy Lake, near the Temple of the Buddha's Tooth, and one of Sri Lanka's oldest continuously operating hotels, opened in 1869.
Edler & Krische is often misattributed as a French postcard
Howard Woody, a pioneer researcher of early German printing postcard technologies writes of this postcard that the collotype’s “light hues accent the woman’s layered costumer and create an attractive luminous image that contrasts with the muted
After Ahmad Shah Durrani took Peshawar in 1747, Bala Hissar served as a royal residence for the Durrani Empire. This period is strongly associated with the fort’s role as an Afghan administrative and courtly center in the frontier city.
