Countries can be classified broadly into two categories – Red light and Green light culture. Japan, South Korea, Israel, and the United States of America can be clubbed into Red light culture. India can be an example of Greenlight culture. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
