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...
Book Review: The Corporation that Changed the World by Nick Robins
The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational by Nick Robins is available on Amazon. The first multinational corporation the world saw was also the most rapacious More...
From World’s Education Capital to Depths of Illiteracy – Part III
[contextly_sidebar id=”ATgqup0t7M9Ck8j9WpIITQrW0MiX26SM”] Deathly blow to Indian universities Imagine a group of horsemen riding into the campus of a world-famous university, mowing down students and More...
The White Man’s Burden
A common reason widely accepted for the British adventures in India are the monetary prospects they found to realise from trading with India and more so by controlling/ruling it. It is also widely accepted at least More...
Book Review: An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor
An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor can be purchased from Amazon Shashi Tharoor gave a fantastic speech at Oxford last year where he took apart the British rule in India. He playfully asked for a reparation of More...
भारत संसाधनों से नहीं मानसिकता से गुलाम है : आज़ाद देश के गुलाम नागरिक
पिछले १० या १५ सालों से “विकास” नाम का शब्द बार बार सुनने में आता है | हर किसी को विकसित More...
British Colonization of India
[contextly_sidebar id=”wEVBLzBXoa3hurMR7L5LSVpfJrh3UOe7″] One of the main reasons for the Europeans to sail the oceans was to find new trade routes to Asia, especially, to India. The adventure was inevitable More...
India before the British Conquest
India is a living civilization. No other nation has a continuance of philosophies, rituals, cultures and traditions in the manner in which India has it. Even after thousands of years, of which there were centuries More...
Temples and the State in the Indian Tradition: Part 5
Continuing the series on Hindu Temples, their conception, history, heritage and legacy authored by M.D. Srinivas. [contextly_sidebar id=”IqLqRyj1Y2jcZFpuQh1tPMvNuQO6Bvx0″] THE STATE CONTROL OF TEMPLES More...