How UK’s top 10% benefited the most from colonial India’s wealth
Between 1765 and 1900, the British Empire took $64.82 trillion from India during colonialism, a recent Oxfam report has found ...
Oxfam ‘weaponising history’ with claim Britain owes India £52 trillion
The charity’s report argues that the UK owes reparations to the colonial country for extracting money between 1765 and 1900 ...
Lessons from ancient India on post-conflict reconstruction
The writer is a biomedical systems engineer and author of ‘Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World’ Ancient India’s greatest engineering achievement wasn’t a monum ...
The story of India’s Republic Day and the military parade tradition
India marks its 75th Republic Day with a grand parade down Kartavya Path in New Delhi. But how did a military march become the most significant part of celebrations? A look back at history ...
Temples, treasures and trade: The astonishing legacy of India's Chola dynasty
The Cholas were a powerful south Indian dynasty known for military conquests, grand temples and shaping global trade and ...
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How the British Empire's richest took home 50% of India's extracted wealth from 1765 to 1900
The wealth the British extracted from India 'would be enough to carpet the surface area of London in British pound 50 notes ...
OP Jindal’s empire of steel is powered by grit and determination
In the 1950s, when most of his contemporaries were seeking steady government employment, he took the unconventional path by ...
How a wealthy merchant corporation powered the Chola empire and the precocious globalism of the medieval Indian Ocean
In a truly awe-inspiring logistical feat, Rajendra Chola would have the Five Hundreds great trading fleets follow his armies ...