Category Archives: Modern India

The Nizam Chronicles-Qasim Rizvi and the Razakars

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

If evil ever had a face it was Qasim Razvi, the founder of the Razakars. Who was this man who at one stage was even more powerful than the Nizam? Who was this monster in a human form, who unleashed … Continue reading →

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The Nizam Chronicles- The radicalization of Hyderabad State

Posted on March 18, 2024 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

There has been an attempt to whitewash the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan as an essentially benign ruler, who was misled by Qasim Rizvi on the Razakars. That has been perpetuated by an entire cabal of Indian … Continue reading →

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Kadambini Ganguly

Posted on July 19, 2023 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

19th century India under the British was caught between it’s age old religious beliefs and the more modern Western ideals of the British. Patriarchy still dominated the society, with women’s education being totally discouraged, with a belief that if a … Continue reading →

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Salt Satyagraha: What the History Books Don’t Teach Us

Posted on January 10, 2023 by jgargi

The Inland Customs Line was a system of customs barriers that was established in India by the British colonial government in the 19th century. The purpose of the line was to collect customs duties and taxes on goods that were … Continue reading →

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Benoy, Badal and Dinesh

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

Writers Building in Kolkata, designed by Thomas Lyon in 1777, was so called after the junior clerks of the East India Company, called writers who worked here. It was the HQ of the East India Company and later the British … Continue reading →

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Bhupendranath Datta

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

Swami Vivekananda was one of the towering icons of the Bengal Renaissance. A man who inspired Hindus with his call of “Arise, Awake and Stop Not Till you reach your goal”. And his clarion call, inspired the nascent revolutionary movement in … Continue reading →

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Rani Rashmoni

Posted on June 7, 2022 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

During the 1840s, the fishing communities in Bengal along the Hooghly were facing a major survival crisis. The Ganga was the lifeline of these communities, especially between February and October, when they would set out to net the famed hilsa … Continue reading →

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Veer Savarkar-Assasination of Arthur Jackson

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

Arthur Jackson was the collector of Nashik since 1907, a mild mannered man, proficient in Sanskrit and Marathi.  Also a learned Indologist, who wrote many papers on Indian history and culture, affectionately called as  Pandit Jackson by the locals.  Fond … Continue reading →

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Tilka Manjhi and Telang Kharia

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

Jharkhand whose name literally means “Bush land” or “Forest land” had a long history of resistance to the British colonial rule.  Among the numerous tribes that make up the state, the Santhals are one of the dominant ones, primarily in … Continue reading →

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G. N. Ramachandran

Posted on October 6, 2021 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

“If you think you know it, then you do not know it, and if you know that you cannot know it, then you know it”. One of the biggest advances in the field of molecular biophysics, has been the discovery … Continue reading →

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