After that weird, wonderful and very wet opening ceremony of the 33rd Olympiad, La Ville-Lumiere has once again exploded into our collective consciousness as a city we simply cannot ignore. It seems a good time, therefore, to examine one of our own city’s historical connections to la belle France – the 18th century military alliance forged by Nawab Hyder Ali …
Mahindra responded to a Twitter thread by author and tech expert Jaspreet Bindra, who gave a short history of the EIC and spoke about Indian-origin businessman Sanjiv Mehtawho bought it in the early 2000s Business tycoon Anand Mahindra, whose company bought a minority stake in the East India Company nearly a decade ago, said he was delighted to have played …
Writing about India’s Partition and many other related issues/events of those times as well as of periods well before and well after Independence is not very easy because of so much of history being swept under the carpet, destroyed, kept classified, or twisted. The chapters are: Bengal Encounters Islam, Plassey: Sale of Bengal, 1857: Impact on the Colonial Narrative, Indian …
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