Posts tagged with “history”
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04 Sep 2018
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Harappa Granpa
14 Jun 2018 -
Catch-22
13 Jun 2018 -
Shah Jahan And The Ruby Robber
20 Sep 2017 -
The Gory Story Of Genghis Khan
30 Mar 2017 -
Haunted By Our Colonial Past
28 Mar 2017A blogger friend of mine has blogged several times, about a couple of issues that bother her. One is, the strange emotionally charged attitude we have to the English language and the other is the discrimination, dark skinned people in India face. After some thought, I have come to believe, it is possible, that these two seemingly disconnected issues, could indeed be linked.
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White Mughals
30 Jan 2017White Mughals by Dalrymple explores an interesting period in British Indian history, when the daily lives of the British officials and Indian people were often tightly entwined. This period has been, later, suppressed by both cultures as a result of hostilities, that developed soon after. Dalrymple's account is well researched, referring to, and quoting from, official documents as well as personal correspondences, to obtain a complete picture on both microscopic and macroscopic scales.