A 300-year-old manuscript of the holy Quran, parts of which were inscribed by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, will soon be auctioned by its Emirati owner in Germany, a news report here has said.

Ihave not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," Winston Churchill famously declared in 1942. That passion for empire did not, however, entail the duty of protecting the lives of the King's distant subjects, especially Indians, "a beastly people with a beastly religion." In 1943, as millions were dying of starvation in 1943 in Bengal ...

The rare book, "India Illustrated" is now digitally preserved and available online for students, historians and others around the world interested in the social, economic and political history of India.