Often in the course of a liberation movement an incident occurs, which expresses the irreconcilable antagonism between the rulers and the ruled; it negates any possibility of their future coexistence by revealing to all in one dazzling moment the true…
The First World War (1914–18) came to an end when, in November 1918, Germany signed the Armistice with the victorious Allies (Britain, France and the United States); Germany’s own allies, Turkey and Austria–Hungary, had already done so. In this war…
On 18 March 1922, Gandhiji faced a trial in Ahmedabad on the charge of sedition for writing and publishing ‘three seditious and inflammatory articles’ in his weekly paper Young India during the previous year 1921. This aroused considerable interest not…
We live in a globalised and digitised age. Some of us receive news of friends through the internet, transact our purchases through the internet, conduct businesses through the internet, even receive our medicine through the internet. The richest four persons…
Out of 547 Jātaka stories, eight describe the caṇḍālas. Out of these eight stories, half contain passing references about this social class, but at least four are stories where the protagonists themselves are caṇḍālas. In those four stories which are…
The Indian handloom industry is presently estimated to produce goods valued at around $108 billion. Nearly 27 lakh households across the country are employed in this sector. It is one of the major contributors to exports with a share of…
Kabir lives in legends which are numerous and demand history-rooted readings, considering the vibrant complexity of the time during which he lived and ‘spoke’. One such reading of the popular (one of the most popular, as even illiterate north Indians…
Smita Sahgal, Niyoga Alternative Mechanism to Lineage Perpetuation in Early India A Socio-Historical Enquiry Delhi: Primus Books, 2017, 242 pages, Rs 995 Submission has been held to be an appropriate virtue of women. It was supposed that a woman submits…