Colonial Studies
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.@RadDesai explains how Britain's settler colonies (USA, Canada, Australia, etc.) were industrialized with wealth that was stolen through the surplus produced by workers in its non...
Secrecy – A Revolutionary Policy What our History Books taught us: 1857 ‘mutiny’ happened because of some upset sepoys whose religion was defiled due to use of cartridges grease...
1/n Sir Sayed Ahmed, founder of AMU, was not only main proponent of two-nation theory but was also an absolute British Loyalist. In this thread I bring in light his booklet " The...
🧵 thread 1/11 Here is proof that I.M Lewis was deliberately manipulating somali history I.M Lewis an British colonial historian was deliberately manipulating somali history and w...
The major difference between Mughal And Islamic Sultanate colonisation and British Colonization, was that the Mughals and the Sultanate, tried to do it by sword. British did it vi...
Hickel’s “response” makes their claim that British colonial rule caused famines in India even weaker than it was before. Since a fuller critique is expected to appear in History Re...
Report on general survey of British Somaliland 1944 (Colonial development & welfare act. Economic survey & reconnaissance), Published under the authority of the Military government...
Salt Satyagraha: What the History Books Don’t Teach Us The Inland Customs Line was a system of customs barriers that was established in India by the British colonial government in...
Tippu Tip (1832-1905), one of the largest slave traders in East Africa. Often neglected in discussions on the evil African slave trade is that of the original slave capturers & s...
A thread on the British Empire in India. With widespread physical infrastructure investments, social reform and collaboration with many Indians, this colonial history is more comp...
A quote on colonolized Muslims before the first world war: "As the British and French drew their empires into the European war, they were forced to examine the loyalties of the Mu...
The Great Famine in India of 1876–78 is one of the most unacknowledged cases of British colonial genocide. With a death toll of at least 10 million, the famine covered an area of 6...
It was the year 1946. Matters had never been as grave in British India as this. Congress, one of the two major parties, ruled in most provinces including the unruly NWFP. Its lead...
Three yrs ago, I was teaching some non-Afrikan students critical Afrikan studies at an American elite University centre for talented youths. I explored colonial contacts with four...
Since “de-industrialization” keeps popping up in debates on colonial legacy (Vijayshankar’s tweet yesterday), I thought I would do an update on where the historiography of the hand...
“Cities in British India with more than 100,000 people according to the census of 1871‒72” no cities/towns in erstwhile Andhra/Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Rajasthan, Assam, etc... a...
1/ #Thread on British plan to 'CIVILIZE' 'Uncivilized-Indians' Src:Richard Hey 1811 https://t.co/Bam0PTRSke
🧵CASE STUDY: RAJPUTISATION OF TRIBALS IN THE COLONIAL TIMES In this thread, we will see how a family of Bhuiyan tribal chiefs from Jharkhand successfully acquired Rathore Rajput s...
Mughals VS Britishers On 10 September, 1780. Mughal Empire defeated Britishers at the battle of Perambakam. Mughal forces were lead by Nawab Haider Ali, imperial governor of S...
Did you know about the Sanyasi Rebellion, that happened between 1770-1775, in the British Bengal, now parts of Bengal, Odisha & Bangladesh, which was part of India then? https://t....
What connects an English journalist, an iconic junction in the heart of Mumbai’s central business district, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, aerial bombing of London in WW2, and clas...
Today, the native people of all European colonies suffer from higher risks of serious and chronic diseases than their colonisers, and it's all a result of European food colonialism...
Who owned* the land during British rule? (18th century) *By owned, we mean was responsible for paying land tax to the British. https://t.co/i3fi1xwGEf
Do you know? The Indian Famine of 1899-1900 kι||εd millions of people - almost as many as 9 million in all. Here’s a Famine victims in colonial India, starving during the 1899-19...
