Tag: History

Prof. Madhavan Palat on Genocide: Barbarism in Civilization in the Twentieth Century. September 14, 2025

Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Society for the Study of Archives cordially invites you to the launch of its journal ‘Reading the Archive’, a graduate journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The event will feature an inaugural lecture by Prof. Madhavan K. Palat on Genocide: Barbarism in Civilization in the Twentieth Century The lecture will be chaired by Prof. Salil Misra, Visiting Faculty, BML Munjal University,… Read More Prof. Madhavan Palat on Genocide: Barbarism in Civilization in the Twentieth Century. September 14, 2025

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‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000. By now, 321 Palestinians PER DAY have been killed or wounded

NB: Imagine! what would Biden and Trump and good Christian MAGA faithful and Keir Starmer etc., say if this figure were registered for their citizens for EVEN ONE DAY, rather than 710 days? They have sunk so deep in the mire of blood and tears which they have created (since 1948, when they terrorised 760,000… Read More ‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000. By now, 321 Palestinians PER DAY have been killed or wounded

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Nepal, France, America: democracy seems overtaken once more

There is one recurring theme: Young people feel robbed of their future Pratap Bhanu Mehta NB: A timely and typically thought-provoking essay by this scholar. I add some observations below 1/ The crisis of the 1960s and 1970s culminated in the Trilateral Commission’s 1975 report on The Crisis of Democracy, authored by Samuel Huntington et… Read More Nepal, France, America: democracy seems overtaken once more

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What History Really Tells Us About Hindu-Muslim Relations

Supposedly irrefutable evidence of division is said to lie in the Muslims over the last 1,000 years having victimised the Hindus, treating them as enslaved. Romila Thapar explains why historians question this theory The following is the text of the C.D. Deshmukh Lecture delivered by Romila Thapar on January 14, 2023, at the India International… Read More What History Really Tells Us About Hindu-Muslim Relations

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Before and after the fall: World politics & the end of the Cold War

Nuno P. Monteiro and Fritz Bartel, eds., Before and after the fall: world politics and the end of the Cold War, Cambridge, 2021 Reviewed by Lorenzo Cladi In this volume, Nuno Monteiro and Fritz Bartel bring together a vast array of scholars. They all get to grips with the issue of continuity and change with… Read More Before and after the fall: World politics & the end of the Cold War

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Dadabhai Naoroji at 200: The Grand Old Man Who Exposed an Empire’s Loot

Santhosh Mathew “History often rewards those who speak for the voiceless,even when their words are unwelcome.”On his 200th birth anniversary, Dadabhai Naoroji stands tall not merely as a nationalist icon,but as a polymath, thinker, parliamentarian, social reformer, and above all, the conscience-keeper of colonial India. If today Shashi Tharoor reminds the world that India once… Read More Dadabhai Naoroji at 200: The Grand Old Man Who Exposed an Empire’s Loot

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Blindsided by Trump, Modi is learning hard lessons about India’s place in the new world order

New Delhi spent decades cosying up to the US. The truth is, Washington doesn’t have allies outside the west – it has clients. What changed was that over the past quarter of a century, India’s political class began to see the US as the country’s natural partner. It was the main destination of India’s exports… Read More Blindsided by Trump, Modi is learning hard lessons about India’s place in the new world order

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