India.

History, color, boldness, impertinence, and individualism—all of this is found in India. Feudal and autocratic, yet also democratic and socialist; materialistic and pragmatic, yet also surprisingly ethereal. Selected from the 70 million images in the Getty Images archive that chronicle 150 years of Indian history, and accompanied by text by India Today editor S Prasannarajan, here are the key players and events of the last century and a half, from the humblest people captured in their daily lives to the glorious and grandiose panorama that is the Indian subcontinent. India is a visual chronicle of more than 450 photographs, from the days of the Raj and the Indian Mutiny to the present day.