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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicBritish east india company

Topic: british east india company

Marathas couldn’t afford a war with the Portuguese. So, they gave up Dadra and Nagar Haveli

'Uprising: The Liberation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli' by Neelesh Kulkarni traces the journey of India's final leg of freedom - from the Portuguese. The movement was joined by civilians, local tribes, and celebrities like Lata Mangeshkar.

Mughal rulers didn’t make maps. British found this cartographic silence striking

In 'Empire Building', Rosie Llewellyn-Jones talks about traces the history of Indian cartography during the British years.

West sees overcrowded trains as a classic Indian trope. But they are a colonial relic

A journalist was even convinced that railway facilities weren't the problem. Indian passengers lacked the 'self-possession' necessary to travel like 'sane human beings'.

Why Murshidabad lost out to Calcutta—Unlike Mughals, British didn’t depend on banking families

Murshidabad was one of the first districts established by the East Indian Company. Now Mamata Banerjee govt is set to trifurcate it.

‘Grow indigo in 3 kathas of each bigha’ – How the British forced Indians into debt, starvation

Indigo has made its mark in history as a colonial crop, but what makes this dye such an important agricultural and social symbol?

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.