PFH1165750: Thailand: A French drawing of two Siamese galleys racing in the 1680s. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165767: Indonesia: An 1847 pencil sketch of Surakarta mosque in central Java. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165775: Sri Lanka: 'The manner of their ploughing' (Knox, 1681). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165789: Sri Lanka: Main Street, Colombo (1910). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165892: Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia: Flag of French Indochina, 1887-1953. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165894: Laos: Flag of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (1975 - continuing). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165900: Indonesia: Flag of the Island of Bali. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165905: Indonesia: President Sukarno aka Bung Karno with his Japanese wife, Ratna Sari Dewi, born Naoko Nemoto in 1940. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165908: China: Chinese Muslim warlord brothers Ma Bufang (left, 1903-1975) and Ma Buqing (right, 1901-1977). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165912: Islam: The name of Allah or God in Arabic script. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165919: Indonesia: Bali, the Kebyar Duduk dance (1930). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165925: Indonesia: Trance dance in Bali, c. 1930. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165945: Indonesia: Sukarno, born Kusno Sosrodihardjo (6 June 1901 - 21 June 1970), first President of Indonesia, as a student in Surabaya, 1916. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165964: India: Moudevi , also known as Jyestha or in Tamil as Kakkaikkodiyal (crow-bannered) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165987: Indonesia: Suharto (1921-2008), Second President of Indonesia (1967-1998). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166019: India: Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India (1947-1964). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1166030: Burma / Myanmar:The former British Club in Katha, 2006. In Orwell's time it consisted of only the ground floor, and is thought to have served as the model for the British Club in 'Burmese Days' (1934). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165107: Cambodia: Heng Samrin (born 1934), Chairman of the People's Republic of Kampuchea of and the State of Cambodia (1979-1993). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165118: Cambodia: Keo Meas (1926 - 1976) was a Cambodian communist politician and a leading figure within the United Issarak Front. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165130: Sri Lanka: Ceylonese woman (apparently Tamil) posing in a rickshaw with rickshaw puller, c.1900. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165142: Vietnam: Hoang Van Hoan (1905-1991) was a founding member of the Indochinese Communist Party, and a Politburo member of the Lao Dong Party (Vietnam Workers' Party-VWP) from 1960 to 1976. He defected to Beijing in July 1979. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165143: Vietnam: Pham Van Dong (1906-2000) Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 through 1976, and Prime Minister of reunified Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1987. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165144: Vietnam: Nguyen Co Thach (1923-1998) foreign minister of Vietnam, 1980-1991. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165147: Vietnam: A female Vietnamese militia woman drives a captured Chinese PLA soldier ahead of her during the 1979 Chinese invasion of Vietnam. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165238: Sri Lanka: Coat of arms of The Dominion of Ceylon (1952-1972). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165241: Sri Lanka: Flag of Ceylon between 1948 and 1951. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165271: Sri Lanka: Pandanus or screw pines at Matara on the south coast of Sri Lanka. Watercolour by the German scientist and traveller Ernst Haeckel, c.1882. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165273: Sri Lanka: A Buddhist temple in the interior. Watercolour by the German scientist and traveller Ernst Haeckel, c.1882. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165281: Sri Lanka: Taprobane Island, Weligama Bay. Watercolour by the German scientist and traveller Ernst Haeckel, c.1882. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165470: Indian Ocean: Painting of a flying fish, c.1749 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165479: China: Painting of a mandarin's sampan, Canton (Guangzhou) c.1749 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165484: Japan: Mount Fuji from the sea, c.1928 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165492: India: An Indian follower of Vishnu (Pierre Sonnerat, 1782). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165494: India: An Indian Widow (Pierre Sonnerat, 1782). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165504: India: A man sawing wood (Pierre Sonnerat, 1782). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1165509: India: Indians irrigating a field with a pannier (Pierre Sonnerat, 1782). / Bridgeman Images