Searched for
BRITISH COLONIAL EXPANSION
Kittur Rani Chennamma’s courage continues to inspire India’s soldiers, says MoS V Somanna- NCERT Class 9 new SST textbook will have Ram Rajya, Maharana Pratap’s resistance, Mahabharata, Sengol & Upanishads
- In 2017, Lewis Pugh swam 1 km at South Georgia to campaign for protection. 7 years later, protected waters had grown from 2% to 36%, adding 166,000 km² of ocean in total
- Delhi’s ageing Lutyens bungalows now carry a Rs 92-crore upkeep bill for ministersAnnual expenditure on Lutyens bungalows reached a record Rs 92.35 crore in 2025-26. This spending has more than tripled since 2014-15, refl...23 Aug, 2026, 12.23 PM IST
- Independence Day 2026: The Kolkata chemist who sold foreign medicines, backed Swadeshi and built a pharma empireIndependence Day 2026: Butto Kristo Paul & Co. started as a modest establishment focused on importing foreign medicines. Over time, it blos...15 Aug, 2026, 10.06 PM IST
- Independence Day 2026: The road to UPI — India’s payments revolution was centuries in the makingIndia’s payments ecosystem has evolved dramatically, from hundis and merchant networks that moved value across long distances to formal ban...15 Aug, 2026, 06.19 PM IST
- Swadeshi 1.0 vs. Made in India 2.0: How India turned a 1905 boycott into a 2026 business strategyIndependence Day 2026: From the Swadeshi movement to Atmanirbhar Bharat. Early Swadeshi movements fostered indigenous industries against im...13 Aug, 2026, 03.11 PM IST
- Empire buys back: After Tata, Adani can rewrite India's colonial pastAdani Ports is evaluating the acquisition of a controlling stake in UK's Associated British Ports (ABP) in a deal valued at nearly $10 bill...29 Jul, 2026, 02.11 PM IST
- In 1789, one mysterious outbreak changed Australia's history; scientists may have solved itIn 1789, a horrific outbreak devastated Indigenous Australians around Sydney Harbor. Up to 70% of local First Nations people died. For over...23 Jul, 2026, 09.11 PM IST
- Quote of the Day by Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta: ‘When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land…’ Lesson from one of history’s most powerful quotes on colonialismQuote of the Day by Jomo Kenyatta highlights a historical truth about colonial expansion in Africa. Missionaries arrived with religious tex...18 May, 2026, 12.07 PM IST
- March 5 in world history: From Stalin’s death to the rise of the nuclear ageMarch 5 marks significant historical events, including the Boston Massacre in 1770, which fueled the American Revolution. Winston Churchill...05 Mar, 2026, 02.14 PM IST
- Narco-colonialism: How Britain exploited Indians for its drug trade with ChinaIndia Independence Day 2025: A century-long British colonial opium trade in India exploited millions of farmers, becoming the regime's seco...12 Aug, 2025, 02.31 PM IST
- India and China were the world’s richest nations — rice grew their wealth: Francesca Bray, University of EdinburghFrancesca Bray's research highlights rice's unique position in global commodity networks, resisting industrial monoculture and supporting s...13 Jul, 2025, 11.21 AM IST
- UK extracted $64.82 trillion from India during colonial rule. Richest 10% got most of the cashOxfam International's report highlights how the UK extracted USD 64.82 trillion from India during colonial rule, with significant wealth tr...20 Jan, 2025, 03.13 PM IST
- Independence Day: How the British pulled off a $45 trillion heist in IndiaIndependence Day: India's economic history is revealing its painful past under British colonialism. Economic historian, Utsa Patnaik's rese...15 Aug, 2023, 03.32 PM IST
- How hunger links Ireland and IndiaIreland was the UK’s first colony, where it learned how to extract value from people who were denied political power.16 Apr, 2023, 09.10 AM IST
- Miraculous medicines are always more myth than reality: Pandemics, prophylactics and pice packetsOseltamivir was that drug during bird flu several years back, and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is the drug today. President Trump’s demands for...17 Apr, 2020, 11.41 PM IST
- 'Northeastern region must be involved to achieve Look East policy goals'The 'Look East' policy, therefore needs a reorientation to suit the development interests of the northeastern region, the book says.09 Aug, 2015, 12.09 PM IST
- Boardroom battle at Amul gets bitter as Chairman Vipul Chaudhary accuses MD of 'divide & rule'Vipul Chaudhary accused MD of 'divide & rule'; his union's mouthpiece claims federation directionless after Kurien's exit.08 Nov, 2013, 11.47 AM IST
- If you go by their ad, YV Reddy could become the next governor of Bank of EnglandThe successful candidate will have experience of working in, or with, a central bank or similar institutions; or will have worked at the mo...26 Sep, 2012, 06.49 PM IST
Load More
