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Russian Card In The Revolt Of 1857

There were many reasons for the outbreak of the revolt of 1857. Most of the reasons were domestic. But the historian Elena Karatchkova has highlighted one international factor for the outbreak. According to Elena Karatchkova, the British believed that Tsarist […]

History World History

Origin of Taliban

The USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979. It was a period of the cold war. To counter the influence of the USSR in Afghanistan, the USA was intervening there through the Intelligence Service ( ISI ) of Pakistan. Normally, it is […]

Polity

Indian Democracy – Remarkable Exception

Scholars are convinced that democracies can be established at any level of income but they do not survive at a low level of income. With few exceptions, countries at higher levels of income tend to have stable democracies. Adam Przeworski, […]

Anthropology

Our Cousins Neanderthals

We discovered neanderthals in 1856. For over 300000 years, neanderthals successfully weathered many climatic cycles and adjusted to numerous habitats. They were capable of innovation and adaptation. They disappeared quite abruptly about 40000 years ago as a result of what […]

Sociology

Globalization And Productive Culture

In the Indian context, productive culture is the culture of lower caste people. Here society is based on varna and caste stratification. The people in lower castes are actually engaged in the production of the economy. They are peasants, craftsmen, […]

The shanar community had started agitation against it. Breast Tax Revolt / Upper Cloth Revolt( 1813 -1859 )

History Modern History

Upper Cloth Revolt | Breast Tax Revolt. ( 1813 -1859 )

Breast Tax Revolt. ( 1813 -1859 ) | Upper Cloth Revolt Shanar were the fishermen community who lived in the coastal region of south Travancore. By then Travancore was a princely state. In 19th century Travancore, women from underprivileged caste […]

History Modern History

Gandhiji : A Political Saint or Saintly Politician.

Different historical approaches viewed Gandhiji in a different way. Imperial historians like Judith Brown described Gandhiji as a political opportunist. Marxist historians consider Gandhi‘s “non-violence” as a tool to transfer power peacefully to the bourgeois class. The subaltern historians had […]

Economics

Indian Democracy Through Bond Market

The bond market is a platform through which the Government of India as well as corporates raise capital to pay down debt or to make capital expenditures. At present, the Government bond market and corporate bond market are separated and […]

Polity

The Emergence of Modern Constitution

An eminent British historian Linda Colley published her new book The Gun, The Ship and The Pen. Through her book, she tried to explain the forces responsible for the emergence of the modern constitution in the world. The first force […]

Ancient History History

Adichanallur – Erstwhile Sea Port

Adichanallur is an archaeological site in Tamil Nadu. It is 15 km away from the capital of the early Pandya kingdom, Korkai. The recent excavation at Adichanallur revealed that the human skeleton remains did not quite match the biological structure […]