UK drained $64.82 trillion from India during colonial rule; billionaire wealth surged by $2 trillion in 2024: Key points of Oxfam report
Oxfam International’s report highlights how colonial wealth extraction, particularly from India, has laid the foundation for modern economic inequalities, including the dominance of unearned wealth, ...
The rise of India’s premier boarding schools: From Empire to Independence and after
While The Lawrence School, Sanawar, began as a military asylum for orphans, The Doon School emerged in the decade of India’s ...
Colonial legacy of death penalty still continuing in India, says Chelameswar
Former Supreme Court judge J. Chelameswar criticizes India's colonial legacy of capital punishment, urging action to honor ...
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From Colonization to Le Corbusier: Was Modernism in India an Imposition or an Invitation?
Explore India's architectural evolution post-independence: a blend of modernism and tradition shaping today's built ...
The British Raj extracted $65 trillion from India: Fact or fiction?
Is there a case for reparations? Oxfam’s huge estimate of the money drained from India by Britain’s colonial rule does not ...
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Does Britain owe India $65 trillion in colonial-era reparations?
NEW DELHI -- Does the United Kingdom owe reparations to India? Debate over that long-simmering question has been reignited by ...
India Before the Ambanis review: How Indian business changed the course of history over 300-plus years
In 'India Before the Ambanis', historian Lakshmi Subramanian lays out the context in which Indian business influenced history ...
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The drink of India’s Indigenous people gets a modern twist
One legacy of British colonial rule in India is a ban on making and selling an Indigenous spirit called mahua. It's resulted in a stigma attached to the drink. Entrepreneurs have found a legal ...