Economist Utsa Patnaik’s analysis of colonial trade data estimates that Britain extracted wealth equivalent to $45 trillion in today’s terms. Taxes collected in India were used to buy Indian goods, ...

Thoroughly researched, Sarna’s book unearths details — delicious nuggets about people who have been reduced to footnotes in history — that makes ‘A Flag to Live and Die For’ a compelling read. Not ...

As the nation celebrated Republic Day, the tricolour was visible everywhere. The sight can evoke deep feelings, as this is ...

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It is hard to accept that India would have remained stagnant but for the colonial rule. Actually, we may have modernised faster and as per our own blueprint if we had not been disrupted by the British ...

Buildings age the way cultures do: unevenly, politically, selectively. And cultures do not endure by clinging to form, but by carrying forward the spirit. Few practices make this distinction as ...

The adoption of the Purna Swaraj (complete independence) resolution by the Indian National Congress (INC) was a significant move in the saga of India's independence movement. At its forty-fourth ...

New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, on the 140th foundation day of the party on Sunday, asserted that the Congress is an ideology and ideologies never die. Among other senior party ...

Urfi Javed headed to Mumbai police station at 5 am with her sisters after what she called the "scariest experience" of her life. Her sister Dolly said it's her second time in a week feeling unsafe in ...

Poverty is as misunderstood as any subject can be. At one level, it could mean no food, no clothes, bad health, and recognized inadequacy of shelters, amenities, and services. But at another level, it ...

The Swadeshi Movement spread like wildfire in 1905 after the British colonial government forcibly partitioned Bengal. (Sanghnomics is a weekly column that tracks down and demystifies the economic ...