The British Raj extracted $65 trillion from India: Fact or fiction?
Is there a case for reparations? Oxfam’s huge estimate of the money drained from India by Britain’s colonial rule does not ...
PL-480: When US choked food aid to shape India’s foreign policy
India produces more food than the US. But there was a time when India requested food aid from the US and faced arm-twisting ...
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The angel with the bushy beard
Major Dudley John Gardiner was a giant of a man and a dedicated and much-loved quartermaster for the poor and needy in India.
ThePrint on MSN6d
How British photography represented Indian women—nautch girl, aayah, bhadramahila
In 'Framing Portraits, Binding Albums', edited by Shilpi Goswami and Suryanandini Narain, dwells on the importance of family ...
Yesterdate: This day from Kolkata’s past, January 25, 1802
John Cartier, Governor of Bengal, died on this day. Cartier was first employed as a writer for the British East India Company ...
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The western way of genocide
GAZA is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw ...
If Oxfam is right about Empire, then where is my $1 million?
Why would Oxfam, a once-respected charity, publish a careless and ill thought-out piece of propaganda such as its latest ...
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IMD: India’s weather tracker turns 150 years old
On January 15, 2025, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) will turn 150 years old. The organisation was set up by the provincial British government ... and the Orissa famine that followed ...
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India’s pathshalas were inclusive institutions. Dalits, Brahmins studied together
Presenting rich archival evidence and data on 16,000 indigenous schools in British India, historian Parimala V Rao asserted ...