Articles with tag: Raj

The Raj Lives: India In Nepal

Umesh Verma May 6, 2008 interacts: 30

Six decades after the British withdrew from the subcontinent, it takes considerable audacity to produce a book titled “The Raj Lives”.

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

1857 and the Lessons of 150 Years

mehul kamdar Oct 29, 2006 interacts: 333

There is no reason why people should continue to suffer because thieves and manipulators succeeded in dividing them so decisively 150 years ago.

Gone is Caravan...

Beej K Singh Oct 19, 2006 interacts: 107

Gone is caravan - seek my eyes in vain
All I see is dust - dust full cloudy train

Vignettes from the Cellular Jail

Shantanu Dutta Aug 25, 2006 interacts: 57

The cellular jail is a hugely understated monument to the sacrifices in fighting British imperialism for what is now India , Pakistan and Bangladesh

Prisoner of Conscience or Conscious Prisoner?

Farzana Versey May 29, 2006 interacts: 58

V.P.Singh is back with a new Jan Morcha. Look at the timing. ‘Mandal 2’ is staining the streets. Is he capitalising on the wave? He says in this interview, “We are sitting on a volcano. The very backward are looking up to me. In 15 years

Ba, Beti aur Bahu

Farzana Versey Apr 5, 2006 interacts: 95

Uma Bharti is putting on the loner act for only one reason – to save the BJP’s top rung. The real loner here is Sonia. Her godfathers are ghosts. Are both of them “mind-controlled victims”?

Shivaji -- Portrait of the King as Barbarian

Kedar Joshi Jan 5, 2006 interacts: 337

Shivaji was an irreligious Hindu king. The Maratha leader's barbarism is depicted in the civic laws practised under his rule

The Abu Ghraib Scandal: Who’s Shame is it?

Laila Kazmi May 22, 2004 interacts: 99

As a Pakistani-American, it is especially difficult to watch this war between “good” and “evil.” On the one hand, our government bombs countries and encroaches on the civil rights of people...