Category: British Rule in India
Varnam posted this great entry on “The Benevolent Empire” earlier this week which mentions how British rule ended up with an impoverished India (emphasis mine): When Clive of India came to Bengal, he described...
Many of you must have come across this “famous quote” of Macaulay in which he appears to be praising the wealth, cultural and spiritual heritage of India: I have travelled across the length and...
Here are some links�for your weekend reading: 1. An article recommended by someone I respect. I have very quickly browsed through it but looks very readable and�well-written:�”Without quota, every caste would be a forward...
Aditi Goyal from Bharat Uday Mission recently wrote this essay – worth a read. Some excerpts below: “About 3 days prior to a national holiday – the independence day of India – I along...
The recent controversy around Germany’s proposal to seek an EU ban on swastikas (and later its abandonment: see here and here) prompted me to dig up and refresh this article which I wrote for...
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