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For many Hong Kong POWs, the abundance of time the Japanese occupation afforded allowed latent artistic talents to blossom.
The Bihar School Athens, an art society that the Englishman set up in the early 19th century, was unique for its time in transcending racial divisions.
From monuments and landscapes to the diverse people of the subcontinent land, European artists sketched, drew and painted colonised India in rich detail.
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When Shah Jahan, then known as Khurram, rebelled against his father King Jahangir and won, the spoils of his victory included a retinue of 500 elephants. While an impressive number, it paled in comparison to what his grandfather, Akbar the Great, commanded. According to Jahangir's biography, Tuzuk-i Jahangiri, the third Mughal emperor Akbar had 35,000 elephants.