Amrita Sher-Gil with her paintings (Umrao Singh Sher-Gil reflected in the mirror), Paris, France, c.1930 (The Sher-Gil Archives)

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Elihu Yale (1649–1721) possibly by: Michael Dahl (Swedish, 1656/59–1743) (Yale University Art Gallery)

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The Battle of the Hydaspes, in what is now Punjab, between tAlexander the Great and the Indian king Porus, 326 BC; from the Faits du Grand Alexandre, c. 1470

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Lovers Embracing, c. 1630. India, Mughal Dynasty (1526-1756) (The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1971.91)

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This painting of Sidi Masud Khan, a habshi minister at the court of Bijapur. Masud Khan remained in power until 1683, not long before Bijapur fell to the Mughals. He then moved to Adoni in the Kurnool district, where he governed for a short time and built a mosque. (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford)

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The Beatles in the late 1960s wearing Paisley, shortly after their India trip. (Shutterstock)

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A Kashmiri artisan weaves pashmina shawl in outskirts of Srinagar on Sept. 17, 2015 (Xinhua/Javed Dar via Getty Images)

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Indian exhibitor Hardik arranges a display of wooden clocks at a stall during an exhibit in Amritsar on September 7, 2012 (NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images)

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Calicut, India has a long spice trading history, exporting black pepper and other spices (Soltan Frédéric/Sygma via Getty Images)

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Ayub Ali, a senior government official helping shepherd the Dhaka muslin revival project, displaying a piece of muslin cloth in his office in Dhaka, January 2022 (Munir uz zaman / AFP via Getty Images)

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Photo of Princess Catherine circa 1895 (Peter Bance)

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Amrita Sher-Gil, Lahore, India, c.1938 (Sher-Gil archives)

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Cowasjee, a man who had his nose reconstructed with the aid Wellcome V0016860

The bathroom-toilet structure of a house in Lothal, one of the southernmost sites of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization (Wikimedia)

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Kalpana Chawla, NASA photo portrait in orange suit

Noor Inayat Khan at dunes near Den Haag, Netherlands, 1934 (Nekbakht Foundation)

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