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Sandip Chakraborty
West Bengal’s Shabar Tribe Bears Criminal Stigma of British Rule
12 Nov 2021
The community was declared a criminal tribe by the British and continue to be ostracised and stigmatised.
V Vamsi Viraj
The Politics of Editing History: Name-Changing in the Recent Past – I
20 Jan 2021
India’s self-image as a nation has been moulded out of opposition to the British through a largely inclusive freedom struggle.
Newsclick Team
World War II: Where Did India Stand?
13 Sep 2020
The Second World War, which began in September 1939, was one of the major events of the 20th century.
Newsclick Team
Eighty Years On, Has Government Behaviour Changed from the British to Modi?
27 May 2020
Drawing parallels between what happened in the 1940s––the Great Bengal Famine of 1943, the Second World War that ended in 1945 and the Partition of India in 1947––historian and professor at the…
Prabir Purkayastha
Tipu Sultan and BJP’s War on History
31 Oct 2019
Once more, with feeling: history is not mythology.
PTI
Boris Johnson Faces Bruising Brexit Defeats, Fails to Push Snap Polls
05 Sep 2019
"The offer of an election is like an offer of an apple to Snow White by the wicked queen with the poison of a no-deal,” said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Newsclick Team
Bengal: No Stranger to Communalism
12 Jul 2019
In this episode of Present, Past and the Future, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay and Prof Partha S Ghosh explore the causes of communalisation in Bengal.
Moon of Albama
Priti Patel Resigns - Israel Lobby Mourns The Loss Of A Valuable British Asset
10 Nov 2017
A British Minister of Hindu heritage was fired after it emerged that she secretly met Israeli officials in Israel and elsewhere without informing the Foreign Office.
Subin Dennis
Did You Know that the US National Anthem Justifies Slavery?
05 Jul 2017
The United States celebrated the Fourth of July, its “Independence Day”, as usual, with fireworks, parades and competitive hot dog eating.
Susan Ram
British General Election Fall-Out
17 Jun 2017
It will rank among the most calamitous of political blunders. The decision of British Prime Minister Theresa May to call a snap election to buttress her ‘hard’ bargaining stance in upcoming Brexit…