Krishnokoli Hazra, Author at ThePrint

There are three versions of British-Indian history: British, communist, and factual. Schools teach the communist version. Somewhere between the British and communist versions lies the factual one.

Krishnokoli Hazra

Railways weren’t Britain’s ‘gift’ to India—we paid with blood, sweat & humiliation

Manusmriti in a London church? 18th-century Britain’s Indomania loved everything Hindu

A British botanist took Sikkim’s rhododendron to Europe—tale of espionage, kidnapping, jail

The Bengali doctor behind ‘Das forceps’ was a champion for women, Indian medicine

Child bride to doctor—Bengal’s Haimabati Sen traded her gold medals for a monthly stipend

Upendranath Brahmachari—forgotten Bengali scientist behind kala-azar cure got 2 Nobel nods

Bengal’s Ram Brahma Sanyal was Indian zoo pioneer in 1800s. Wrote handbook on care, breeding

Girindrasekhar Bose—India’s first psychoanalyst was pen pals with Sigmund Freud

A Bengali feminist from 1800s, critic of British rule who couldn’t stop child marriage at home

British didn’t just introduce criminal tribes, they also had a police manual on how to abuse

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