Islamic loot: How the Mughals drained wealth out of India
The drain of wealth out of India by the British is a well known fact that has been meticulously recorded by historians and economists. However, the drain of wealth originally started with the Islamic invaders who More...
How Indian was the Mughal Empire?
In 1937, elections were held for the Constituent Assembly of India. This was on top of Provincial Governments already being run by Indians, not to mention many municipalities and municipal corporations. All this More...
Deadly distortions of Colonial Rule- Notes from ‘A Ruler’s Gaze’ by Arvind Sharma- III
[contextly_sidebar id=”z383thK60HcOc6rIKlV83jJos2b1Ro4G”] We saw in the previous parts the application of Saidian lens to assess British rule over India. Knowledge produces power; later, power becomes More...
Sinhgad: The Astonishing Escalade of Tanaji and His 300 Marathas
On February 4, 1670 in a stunning act of daredevilry, 300 Maharashtrian soldiers led by Tanaji Malusare, one of the ablest commanders of Maratha king Shivaji, climbed the almost vertical rock face of the fort of More...
Terror Unlimited: The Staggering Loot and Lust of Alauddin Khilji
Until the arrival of Alauddin Khilji (1250-1316), no foreign ruler had looted southern India of its wealth which had accumulated for centuries. According to contemporary travellers like Marco Polo and historians 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...
Maratha Refusal to Dethrone the Mughal
A question is often asked – why did the Marathas, the dominant power of India in the eighteenth century, still continued with the Mughal emperor? Why wasn’t the Mughal dynasty destroyed by the Marathas, More...
The Battle of Saraighat – Role of the Ahom River Navy
The Ahom dynasty of Assam managed to stave off invaders for upwards of four hundred years from 1228 to 1671. There were no more invasions after the Mughal invasion under Ram Singh was soundly defeated in the famous More...
Shivaji And The Rebirth Of A Nation
In her fiery speech in Parliament, Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani has focussed the nation’s collective attention on how the Congress and their leftist collaborators are responsible for teaching More...
Maharana Pratap: The Braveheart of Mewar
In the context of the Rajasthan Government’s move to declare 20 May as a holiday to commemorate Maharana Pratap Jayanti, it is only pertinent to provide a short biography of this great, proud, and inspirational More...