Neopithecops zalmora
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Neopithecops zalmora, the Quaker, is a small butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Mating pair
Wet-season form Narendrapur, near Kolkata, India
Dry-season form at Narendrapur near Kolkata, West Bengal, India
South Asia
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South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia that is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms. South Asia, with a population of 2.04 billion, contains a quarter of the world's population
The region as described in a 1992 work about the geography of Asia: "This greater India is well defined in terms of topography; it is the Indian peninsula, hemmed in by the Himalayas on the north, the Hindu Khush in the west and the Arakanese in the east."
Timur defeats the Sultan of Delhi, Nasir-u Din Mehmud, in the winter of 1397–1398
Emperor Shah Jahan and his son Prince Aurangzeb in Mughal court, 1650
British Indian Empire in 1909. British India is shaded pink, the princely states are shaded yellow.