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Forget the Silk Roads, it’s the Golden Road we should be celebrating. Renowned historian William Dalrymple argues that, thanks to its major role in global trade between AD300 and 600, it’s India, rather than China, to which we owe some of the most important developments in human civilisation, writes Melanie…

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Her first audience was the sheep and horses she herded in rural Pakistan, but she became a national hero. So why is this folk music icon reduced to living in a makeshift house?

Sandy beaches, glorious vistas and a bustling high street add to the charm of this pretty seaside town just half an hour from Edinburgh

Maxime Knudsen found graves of his great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother, Fayz un Nissa, in Hyderabad after two years of searching. With help from author William Dalrymple, he located the tomb on Troop Bazaar Road. The tomb, built in 1828, has been restored and will connect Bank Street with Residency Building. It is…

The Nigerian-born writer has been made Knight Bachelor in the King’s birthday honours for services to literature.

The royal family has decided to leave the 105-carat gem out of this weekend's coronation ceremony. The Koh-i-noor has become a focus of anti-colonial anger. India wants it back.

French is described by friends and peers as an ‘unfailingly generous’ human being whose writing about sensitive and complex issues surrounding India was widely admired

The huge diamond is steeped in history and controversy over how it came to be in the possession of British royalty