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 ...
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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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 ...
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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 ...
How UK’s top 10% benefited the most from colonial India’s wealth
Between 1765 and 1900, the British Empire took $64.82 trillion from India during colonialism, a recent Oxfam report has found. Of this, more than 52 per cent of the wealth ended up in the hands of the ...
Churchill still looms large 60 years on from death
Britain, and the world as a whole, has changed immeasurably in those six decades - yet Sir Winston's figure still looms large ...
UK's richest 10% took half of India's wealth during colonial era: Oxfam report
Oxfam’s 'Takers, Not Makers' report reveals Britain extracted $64.82 trillion from India during colonialism, enriching the UK ...
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The Famished Raj
The Bengal Famine of 1943–44, a man-made catastrophe that in total caused the deaths of perhaps five million people, was described by the incoming British Viceroy Archibald Wavell as threatening ...
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Oxfam report: India’s stolen wealth could carpet London 4 times over
The wounds of British rule have come again in the spotlight ... The most tragic example of this is the 1943 Bengal famine where India lost over 3 million individuals through widespread famine.