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Cambridge and India have well over 100 collaborations and partnerships, many forged over decades, others more recently.

Young Indian politicians get a taste of Cambridge life

05 Dec 2016

A delegation of 12 Indian student politicians affiliated to various political parties visited Cambridge on 1 December to gain a greater understanding...

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Zebu cattle pulling a wagon beside a pond at the Indus  Civilisation site of Rakhigarhi in northwest India

Rice farming in India much older than thought, used as 'summer crop' by Indus civilisation

21 Nov 2016

Thought to have arrived from China in 2000 BC, latest research shows domesticated rice agriculture in India and Pakistan existed centuries earlier...

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Opinion: How the UK and India can lead the development of ecologically smart cities

08 Nov 2016

Bhaskar Vira and Eszter Kovacs (Department of Geography and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discuss how lessons learned...

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A full-page newspaper advert used to promote MNREGA

Drowning in a paper sea: India’s welfare efforts failed by its peculiar bureaucracy

21 Jul 2016

India’s sophisticated laws and progressive policies fail with startling regularity. A new study locates a possible reason as to why in the convoluted...

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Brahmaputra - Assam

Opinion: Droughts and floods: India’s water crises demand more than grand projects

06 Jun 2016

Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discusses ways of dealing with the crisis...

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Maharaja Sayaji Rao III of Baroda, aged twelve, November 1875

The illiterate boy who became a maharaja

31 May 2016

As they struggled to maintain their grip on India as the jewel in the colonial crown, the British attempted to mould the character of India’s princes...

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Srinivasa Ramanujan (middle) with fellow scientists at Cambridge.

Opinion: The man who taught infinity: how GH Hardy tamed Srinivasa Ramanujan’s genius

22 Apr 2016

Béla Bollobás (Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) discusses the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan and the influence of his tutor...

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The Prime Minister holds a bilateral with the Indian PM

Opinion: Six deals to look out for as Indian PM Modi visits Britain

11 Nov 2015

Jaideep Prabhu (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the business deals we can expect to be struck as a result of Narendra Modi's visit to the...

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Narendra Modi at a BJP rally

Opinion: A regional election in India ends in a damning verdict on prime minister Modi

10 Nov 2015

Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography) discusses the result of the election in the Indian state of Bihar and what it means for Prime Minister Modi's...

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Venus transits the rising Sun

Mirage maker

30 Oct 2015

Aditya Sadhanala wanders over to the wall, turns a pulley, and a wooden box about a metre squared swings up and away. Below it gleams an array of...

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Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

Spiritual violence and the divine revolution of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

29 Oct 2015

In 1879, a young Indian boy arrived in England from Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the state of Bengal, sent by his father to receive a British education...

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mobile-mobile

Phone for a doctor

28 Oct 2015

Worried you might be at risk from diabetes? Check your phone: it might help stop you getting the disease. And if you already have diabetes? Your...

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