How Much of Indian History Is Really True?
by Sanjeev Sanyal
Srijan Foundation
Sanjeev Sanyal believes that every generation needs to rethink and question the paradigms on which a society is based. Here is a peek into what to expect from this talk. During this talk, Sanjeev would help us reali...
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Essay:
Comparing India and the West
By S.N. Balagangadhara
Universiteit Gent
During the last two decades, I have been pursuing an unorthodox way of studying cultural differences, focusing mainly on the Indian and the western cultures. Because I believe that one can answer questions about the ci...
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From World’s Education Capital to Depths of Illiteracy – Part III
By Sahana Singh
Indiafacts.org
This final article in our series describes the destruction of key universities and the era of darkness, which descended after aeons of learning. Even as the broken pieces were being put to...
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Essay:
Republics Of The Past – Part 1
By Sumedha Verma Ojha
Swarajya - Jan 20, 2017
India became a modern republic, a sovereign, democratic republic, in 1950 amidst widespread skepticism about the durability of both democracy and the republican form of government in the country. It is now 201...
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How India Went From World’s Education Capital to Depths of Illiteracy – Part II
By Sahana Singh
Indiafacts.org
We continue our series on the universities of ancient India, which imparted a multi-disciplinary education to students of advanced learning. In this second part, we look at I...
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Dating of the Ramayana and Mahabharata
By Nilesh Nilakanth Oak
Let Mahabharata & Ramayana data-set, change your mindset!
While there are more than 130 attempts to date Mahabharata and more than dozen attempts to date Ramayana, all of them have lead to different proposals based o...
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Essay:
When Did We First Celebrate Makar Sankranti?
By Raj Vedam
Swarajya - Jan 13, 2017
The widespread celebration of the Makar Sankranti festival and its many regional variations hint great antiquity. In this article, we will take a journey through time, weaving together history, astronomy, c...
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The Swamimalai Murugan temple and the Tamil Calendar
By Raj Vedam
The Swamimalai Murugan temple near Kumbhakonam has existed since the Sangam Era (~500BCE), and later built ornately by the Cholas around 900 CE. The temple was heavily damaged in 1740 during the cannon exchanges between the Britis...
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Essay:
Revolutionary heroes
By Blake Smith
aeon.co
If the sultan of Mysore had had a bit more luck, George Washington might be known as the Haider Ali of North America. As the ruler of Mysore, a kingdom in what is now southwestern India, Haider fought a series of wars with Great Britain in the l...
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Essay:
Counterview: Taimur's actions were uniquely horrific in Indian history
A response to a Scroll.in article about Hindutva's distorted reading of medieval Indian history.
by Girish Shahane
Published in Scroll.in, 28 December 2016
The unlikeliest of events set off bitter historical debates in...
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Essay:
How India went from World’s Education Capital to Depths of Illiteracy - Part I
By Sahana Singh
IndiaFacts - 6 December 2016
Just a thousand years ago, India was dotted with universities across its length and breadth where international students flocked to gain credentials in advanced educ...
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Essay:
Are we using the wrong calendar to mark human history?
By Scroll staff
A new calendar aims to incorporate all cultures and histories.
When does the human history begin? The answer lies in the way we count years – before and after a significant event – that is today based on the year Jes...
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Essay:
The East India Company: The original corporate raiders
By William Dalrymple
Guardian - 2015
For a century, the East India Company conquered, subjugated and plundered vast tracts of south Asia. The lessons of its brutal reign have never been more relevant.
Essay:
Evolution of Strategic Culture Based on Sun Tzu and Kautilya - A Civilisational Connect
By Col. Harjeet Singh
Published by Centre for Land Warfare Studies, New Delhi - 2016
The Art of War by Sun Tzu and Arthasastra by Kautilya rank among the finest war and political discourses ever writt...
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Essay:
Chanakya and Machiavelli – Two Realists in Comparison
By Jaideep A.Prabhu
“Politics,” Ronald Reagan once said, “is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.” Today, the former US president’s words may seem trit...
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