Reconceptualizing India Studies by S N Balagangadhara: Rethinking of Indian Colonial Narratives- III
It is a facet of colonial attitude which persistently generates literature, mainly from the West, causing violence to Indian culture and traditions. Colonialism in the form of physical usurping and material plunder More...
Winston Churchill: Why the Anglo-American glorification of this monster must stop
Most people in the English speaking world consider Winston Churchill a hero, but the war time British Prime Minister was one of the top mass murderers of the twentieth century. Here are the facts and figures. Mao More...
Remembering India’s forgotten holocaust
The Bengal Famine of 1943-44 must rank as the greatest disaster in the subcontinent in the 20th century. Nearly 4 million Indians died because of an artificial famine created by the British government, and yet it More...
The Politics of British Orientalism: Evangelism and the Aryan-Dravidian Dichotomy
Knowledge is Political Any knowledge that does not strictly fall within the boundaries of the physical sciences can be, and often is, intensely political. By this I chiefly mean two things. Firstly, its character More...
The Mughal tax break that cost India its freedom
It was a Mughal emperor who in 1717 paved the way for British colonial rule in India. This is how it happened. Since the year 1600 the English had been trying to gain a foothold in India, but were not able to break More...
Missionaries and the debate on Sati in Colonial India
[contextly_sidebar id=”eBWL193jr1eqjRNrR0EnysLd8SB4ovcL”] In the popular mind, sati was one of the ills of Hindu society that was abolished by the colonial Government on persistent pressure from British More...
Does ‘Varna’ provide a religious basis for the present Caste System?
Caste system and its accompanying discrimination and occasional violence have been the bane of Indian society. Even today, incidences of discrimination and violence have been reported from time to time, despite More...
The Indian Tradition of Growing and Sharing Food: A Lost Tradition
[contextly_sidebar id=”Pcsp1CjXbXbGTVwCsVcZqnyHCt9DShEk”] India it seems continued to follow this discipline till almost the present times. Texts of all ages from different parts of India emphasize the More...
Historical Hindu Responses to Abrahamism
The Hindu encounter with Abrahamism began with the initial expansions of the second (Christ cult) and third (Mohammedanism) versions. Hindus were among the early victims of the second Abrahamism in the holy war More...
William Dalrymple’s incurable colonial hangover
Behold! The direct descendant of Major General Sir John Dalrymple of North Berwick, 5th Baronet, a great soldier known for his cruelties in Madras Presidency, and the direct descendant of Sir John Warrender Dalrymple More...