This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant.

An internationally renowned artist has painted an elephant sculpture that will be placed with 39 others around Leicester to ...

Each of the gentle giants was painted by a mix of local and national artists, with the smaller elephants crafted by local schoolchildren and community group members. The most popular sculpture was ...