In the long history of European colonialism, some colonialists did better by their colonies than others, and the legacy is mostly one of still-enduring pain. For example, virtually no one (save Newt ...
Birsa Munda was a young tribal leader whose spiritual awakening turned into a powerful rebellion against British rule, ...
British power changed in India after the Sepoy Mutiny and the uprising that followed. The 1857 rebellion, brutally suppressed, led Queen Victoria to declare the crown’s direct rule on the subcontinent ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Economic historians have tended to recognise an almost unfractured racial solidarity that prevailed among the European business class in ...
Imagine a land where rivers hummed with trade boats, cities gleamed with artisanal splendor, and knowledge blossomed in ...
Venture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen was, unsurprisingly, disappointed that India’s telecom regulator recently thwarted Facebook’s plans to expand Free Basics, the company’s ...
Still from “Panorama of Calcutta” (1899), the earliest extant film of India (screenshot via YouTube) The British Film Institute (BFI) has digitized and uploaded a major trove of rarely seen films from ...
In the long history of European colonialism, some colonialists did better by their colonies than others, and the legacy is mostly one of still-enduring pain. For example, virtually no one (save Newt ...
India's caste system is often seen as an institution deeply rooted in traditional Indian culture. This carefully researched study, however, argues that the caste system was at least partly shaped by ...