Category: Modern Indian History

Remembering Chandrashekhar Azad

Early morning, 27 February 1931: Chandrashekhar Azad meets Nehru but is unable to persuade him to speak to Gandhi on the matter of Bhagat Singh. Azad had met Nehru on the insistence of Ganesh...

Impoverishment of India during British Raj

Dear All:  Below, excerpts from a remarkable report from 1908 titled, “Why is England in India at all?“. In this report, written more than a century ago, Jabez Sutherland examines the extent to which the...

A Restorative Historical Account of Victorian Holocausts..

Dear All: It is my pleasure to publish this guest post by Amitabh Soni on “A restorative Historical Account of Victorian Holocausts“…and how these Holocausts though bigger than Hitler’s Holocaust were kept a secret...

Re-examining Savarkar…

For most Indians of my generation, Savarkar is a somewhat shadowy figure – rarely mentioned in any detail in history books; even less so at public events or occasions that commemorate India’s independence. For...