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Articles with tag: British

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.

Nirad Babu's Ghost

Prodyumna Goutam   Jul 1, 2008   interacts: 9

His (Nirad C. Chaudhuri's) discourse could effortlessly vacillate between, say, the role of the Kama sutra in the Indian psyche to the merits of a Chateau d'Yquem.

1857-What Really Happened-A Reconstruction

Agha Amin   Jan 5, 2008   interacts: 68

A brief analysis of the claims about 1857 as one hears them in today’s Pakistan.

War of Independence or the Great Mutiny

Bhaskar Dasgupta   Sep 29, 2007   interacts: 30

A review of William Dalrymple's book, The Last Mughal

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.

Celebrating Pakistan's 60th Anniversary

Asif Naqshbandi   Aug 13, 2007   interacts: 10

What better way to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Pakistan's independence from Britain than poetry from Iqbal, the man who is Pakistan's ideological founding father?

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

The Princess and the Alley Cats

Farouq Taj   Jan 19, 2007   interacts: 230

Shilpa Shetty - A clash of cultures or simple racism?

Dont Expect Brown to be Softer on the War on Terror

Mariam Zaidi   Sep 27, 2006   interacts: 3

Will a change in leadership bring a change in British foreign policy?

Blair’s Last Hurrah

Mariam Zaidi   Sep 14, 2006   interacts: 10

Going, going, gone - the end of the road for Tony Blair

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

Who Created Pakistan?

Ranjit Hira   Jun 26, 2005   interacts: 265

In 1947, India was not expected to survive as a nation

The Company Bahadar

Nazar Khan   Jul 23, 2004   interacts: 168

In its 250 years, it expanded to rule most of India, founded Hong Kong and Singapore, held Napolean a prisoner on Saint Helena and had something to do with the Boston tea party. Its officers invented the games of badminton, polo, squash and snooker.

Luring Muslim Vote

Fawad Ahmad   May 22, 2004   interacts: 50

“No other party comes anywhere close in having Muslims at the heart of decision-making and influence in Britain today

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