Author: staffwriter

I Helped Re-Examine PN Oak’s Claims. There is more to them than Indology admits.

‘We are committing education malparctice’: Why Colonialism is mistaught — and worse — in schools and colleges.

One hundred and sixty-nine years after colonial scholars first started rewriting India’s history, most Indians still don’t know the full story of colonialism.

Their ancestors fought for self-rule. On January 26, 1950 they became the authors of the Republic of India.

A vast wealth gap, underwritten by the ‘rules-based order,’ separates the Third World and the First World.

The sugar that fueled colonialism and slavery has a longer history that begins in India.

Colonialism fanned the flames of communal divisions and sectarian violence. Both still shape India’s political discourse.

Why was India partitioned? The answer begins with policies enacted after the ‘Sepoy Mutiny.’

Consequential moments in the Indian Independence Movement

What does the explosion of caste in India have to do with colonialism? Quiet a lot.

Indians have always strived for freedom. No wonder colonial scholars covered up this past.

Indology holds onto an unscholarly assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others.

For more than a hundred years, Indians were recruited as indentured servants to work on overseas plantations. Today most of the sites of this trade are forgotten.

Stereotypes about Indian society were used to justify colonialism — and are still believed by historians today.

In order to understand the coloniality of modern scholarship on India, you have to start with the mythology of the West.

Fights over how we tell India’s story go back more than a century — and have a great deal to teach us about our current divisions.