Articles with tag: British Raj

Remembering the Jallianwala Bagh, Gandhi, Churchill and Jinnah

Anil Kapuria Aug 15, 2008 interacts: 141

Reviewing positions of three key players on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre - the watershed event of India’s independence.

India: The Empire Strikes Back

William Dalrymple Aug 21, 2007 interacts: 104

In 1600 India produced 22.5% of global GDP. By 1870, India had been reduced into a Third World nation, thanks to the Raj.

The Corporation That Changed The World

V S Gopalakrishnan Jul 27, 2007 interacts: 53

A book exposing the illegalities, tyrannies, immorality, rapacity, frauds and every kind of misfeasance practised by the East India Company.

Citizenship and Identity in Pakistan

Yasser Latif Hamdani May 13, 2007 interacts: 406

Before the British colonised the subcontinent, the people of this region existed in overlapping sets of multiple identities, where contending sovereignty of identity groups was negotiated and power was shared at several levels. When the British came alon