From India’s original inhabitants, the Mauryans, to the British, who came as traders but stayed to reshape its history, this is a land that absorbed everyone, even those who tried to dominate it. From ...

Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia, and South America were all one continent called Pangea. Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent ...

British civil servant Sir Cyril Radcliffe drew up the borders between India and Pakistan, in 1947, dividing the sub-continent very roughly into: a central and southern part, where Hindus formed ...

This spread has been most successful in the Indian sub-continent, which is now considered the epicentre of world cricket. This region includes countries such as Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri ...

India and Bangladesh. It is important for providing freshwater and irrigation to agricultural land. Asia is a very large continent so its climate can be very different in one part compared with ...

Asia is separated from the continent of Europe by a land border and edged by three oceans: the Indian Ocean to the south, the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Arctic Ocean to the north.