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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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Topic: East India company

Why the Mughals did not fail India in science: A critique of Eurocentric study of history

Scientific inventions in the West cannot be hailed by blaming the Mughal state. An empire has to be compared with an empire.

East India Company fought hard for its coins in India. Even Aurangzeb’s fury couldn’t stop it

Mughal India protected its coins fervently. Then, East India Company entered the picture.

When Mughals stopped East India Company’s Chittagong invasion, siege on Bombay

In the ‘Colonial Subjugation of India’, historian Amar Farooqui tells the story of the British empire’s rise and the instruments of coercion to rule over it.

How did East India Company use Mughal artists for commerce? William Dalrymple has answers

Historian William Dalrymple gave a talk to art lovers at DAG about an orphaned world of Mughal paintings that embarrassed the British and was dismissed by the Indians.

Tipu Sultan was just as flawed but Marxist historians didn’t tell us that

Tipu Sultan is remembered as the Indian ruler who died fighting the British and did not take a pension. But that does not automatically make him a patriot.

Bahadur Shah Zafar resented Raja Ram Mohan Roy. So he complained to East India Company

In 'The Broken Script: Delhi Under the East India Company and the Fall of the Mughal Dynasty' Swapna Liddle details the complex tussle between the last two Mughal emperors and the East India company. 

Tipu Sultan is hot button in India’s culture war. New exhibition adds East India Company to it

Most paintings at DAG are 'propaganda works' based on the accounts of British officials who weren't even in India. They were efforts to 'demonise' Tipu Sultan.

A Maharajah in court — Why a Baroda king was tried for ‘poisoning’ a British officer

In ‘False Allies’, Manu Pillai writes about the Maharajas of India and the problems their newly appointed East India Company Residents brought into their lives.

‘Birds of India’ — an exhibition of East India Company paintings by ‘unknown’ Indian artists

Curated by Dr Giles Tillotson, the exhibition by art company DAG showcases 125 paintings of Indian birds commissioned by East India Company.

How East India Company introduced rewards for killing India’s ‘dangerous vermin’ tigers

In ‘The Maharaja of Jodhpur's Guns’, Robert Elgood writes on historic Indian firearms and Rajput traditions relating to hunting and war.

On Camera

Mamata Shankar stuck in Dark Ages. Gen Z showing India there’s no one way to wear a saree

In an interview with Anandabazar Patrika Shankar waxed eloquent about her many objections to the pallu not covering the bosom area of Gen Z women. She called them ‘women of the street’.

Why Tamil Nadu’s women make up nearly half of India’s female factory workforce

With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.

Taiwan reports Chinese military activity around the island

Taiwan has detected a total of 301 Chinese military aircraft and 165 Chinese naval vessels so far in 2024.

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.