Colonialism was made possible, and then sustained and strengthened, as much by cultural technologies of rule as it was by the more obvious and brutal modes of conquest that first established power on...
Gangaji’s truth required activism, not passivity.
Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time. Ask Columbus.
Hinduism as a faith might espouse tolerance, this does not necessarily mean that all Hindus behave tolerantly.
Hinduism is great for encouraging social peace, because everyone basically believes their suffering in this life is the result of misdeeds in a past one... So Hinduism is the best antidote to Marxism.
Trudeau’s Willy Brandt moment needs to find its British echo.
Wartime hardened British attitudes to the prisoners as well. Gandhi ‘should not be released on the account of a mere threat of fasting’, Churchill told the Cabinet. ‘We should be rid of a bad man and...
India is not an underdeveloped country but a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.
It also meant that decisions were increasingly made in offices, behind closed doors, by foreigners with no connection to those whose fates they were deciding. The public display of the rulers’ authori...
The creation and perpetuation of Hindu–Muslim antagonism was the most significant accomplishment of British imperial policy: the project of divide et impera would reach its culmination in the horrors...
In August 1765, the young and weakened Mughal emperor, Shah Alam II, was browbeaten into issuing a diwani that replaced his own revenue officials in the provinces of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa with the...
If you believed in truth and cared enough to obtain it, Ganga affirmed, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it. It was essential to accept punishment willingly in order to demonstrate the st...
The British public is woefully ignorant of the realities of the British empire, and what it meant to its subject peoples.
The Atharva Veda points out that the quest for awareness, the search for answers, the journey towards self-realization, never ceases: How does the wind not cease to blow?How does the mind take no repo...
While he was alive, he was impossible to ignore; once he had gone, he was impossible to imitate. When
We have no word for Nation in our language.
Europe’s history of trading relations with India is borne out in the writings of the ancient historians Herodotus, Pliny, Petronius and Ptolemy, and
When an Englishman wants something, George Bernard Shaw observed, he never publicly admits to his wanting it; instead, his want is expressed as ‘a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious...
Whereas an Akbar might have used such technologies to fuse his diverse people together, the British used them to separate, classify and divide.
The Bengali intellectual and author of the bestselling Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951), with its cringe-worthy dedication to the British empire in India: To
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