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Topic1857

Topic: 1857

Haryana villager’s suicide has a 166-yr backstory: British crackdown in 1857 & a wound yet to heal

Rohnat was declared 'village of rebels' by British after 1857 uprising, and residents' private & panchayat land seized & auctioned. The struggle to find succour continues to this day.

Why Modi’s India looks eerily similar to the one under British after 1857 revolt

Based on Modi govt's loyalty audit, a checklist of devotees and dissenters is being approved and a system of rewards and punishment being devised in India, just like the British did.

Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal who would rather have been a poet

The last Mughal wrote beautiful ghazals while in exile in Yangon, where he spent his last days.

50 years before 1857, a mutiny on this day shook British rule in India

Today is the anniversary of the first sepoy mutiny that took place more than 50 years before 1857 rebellion.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.