The 1857 capture of Delhi was planned, not a sudden uprising by ‘angry men’, said oral historian Sohail Hashmi at his talk ‘1857 Rebels Reach Delhi’ at INTACH.
The Rani of Jhansi's resistance against the British during the Revolt of 1857 and her death in battle on 18 June 1858 have been lionised to near mythical proportions in textbooks and popular culture.
Swapna Liddle’s The Broken Script examines the state of Delhi from 1803-1857–a time when the two regimes overlapped–and the trauma left behind by the revolt.
Karl Marx's grandson Jean-Laurent-Frederick Longuet defended Savarkar in International Court of Justice in a case related to the latter's escape to France from British captivity.
In ‘The (Un)governable City’, Raghav Kishore writes about the transformation of Delhi into a cantonment in the aftermath of the Great Rebellion of 1857.
Deterrence cannot mean institutional licence for an endlessly extensible raid. A search that extends across days, followed by seals and freezes that linger for weeks, begins to resemble a siege.
New Delhi: Indian stocks are seeing a resurgence of volatility just weeks after being dubbed the world’s calmest equity market, with growing skepticism sparking...
NSE CEO Ashishkumar Chauhan was speaking at Off The Cuff event hosted by ThePrint's Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta. He said that NSE, on average, sees 20 crore cyberattacks each day.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
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