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Friday, August 1, 2025
TopicSwadeshi movement

Topic: Swadeshi movement

New book uncovers the struggles of a small-town lawyer who challenged British Maritime Empire

Published by Penguin India, ‘Swadeshi Steam’ by A.R. Venkatachalapathy will be released on 27 February on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books

Left historians have distorted Indian history. Young minds must bring back nationalist spirit

Revolutionary nationalism in India, initiated by the Swadeshi movement of the 20th century, was trivialised as a mere “cult of individual violence”.

Tribhuvandas K. Gajjar, the Gujarati chemist who cleaned Queen Victoria’s marble statue

Gandhi wrote in Navjivan that only Dr. P.C. Roy and Dr. J.C. Bose could be compared to Gajjar in terms of contributions. However, Gujarat did not remember him fondly.

Not swadeshi, samarthya is the answer to India’s economic nationalism

Swadeshi has found a new wind in Indian politics as a form of popular resistance to China. But raising barriers to Chinese imports only affects those lower down the income pyramid.

Ruf & Tuf — the ‘fitted’ denims Akshay Kumar wore, your tailor stitched, & made 1990s ‘cool’

Ruf & Tuf jeans were the first 'branded' pair of denims for many Indians, and traces its origins to an Independence-era company that answered Gandhi's Swadeshi call.

How Modi govt’s push for self-reliance is inspired by RSS model of swadeshi economics

The Modi govt’s insistence that self-reliance is not isolationism is in line with what RSS ideologues have propounded since the 1990s.   

BJP plan for nationwide NRC is political deception, will open yet another polarisation front

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Rabindranath Tagore — the poet who knew nationalism could not rise above humanity

Even 78 years after his death, Rabindranath Tagore remains much like a God for Bengalis. Several of the poet-playwright's works still need to be adequately explored.

Dadasaheb Phalke, the painter-photographer who set India on the course to film-making

On his 75th death anniversary, ThePrint look takes a look at Dadasaheb Phalke’s life and contribution to Indian cinema.

On Camera

Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.