Colonial Studies
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A short answer to the question of why Tsarist Russia never tried to take part in the scramble for Africa is: it did. A follow-up 🧵 on Russia's uncomfortable colonial past. 1/ https...
Feel like one of the big mistakes of Indian history was lack of our ability to Indianize SEA in demography. Seems like SEA was colonized by Indians in small waves initially (like t...
Fascinating book on the intellectual history of political economy in 19th century Ireland. It argues that English economics was taught at all levels to ideologically justify coloni...
1. Christian Colonialism in India Hindu Society Under Siege – 3 The British left another monotheistic residue in India which converted a few Hindus & states and these converts n...
A successful British film was opposed and banned in Bombay, Madras and Bengal. A thread on forgotten piece of India's anti colonial struggle (1/10) https://t.co/zLoM4olV1l
The Aryan Invasion Theory, which was developed within the last 200 years by the British and German Indologists, presents the idea that the Vedic Aryans were not from India but inva...
African universities are not immune to the harmful colonial logics that underpin "African Studies" in Europe and the North America. This is one of my biggest take-aways from my res...
Historiography during colonial times had several shades - one pointed out the brutality of Islamic invaders & justified British rule, other sang glory of syncretic Hindu & Islamic...
[QQT: TWO LETTERS THAT MADE AN EMPIRE] 1/53 Sometime in the spring of 1583, an Englishman named John Newbery arrived in India with a letter from Elizabeth I to an Indian ruler. Wha...
What the British Empire does best is burn & loot—that too is spiritual warfare. When you control the spiritual narrative of a people, you control them forever. https://t.co/gHDyK...
Crimes of Portuguese Christians in Goa By Hinduism Demystified 1. https://t.co/zhINdqVe0o
The Puritan ideology of Protestant Christianity dubbed all expenditure on entertainment as "wasteful", indeed anything used for other than the glory of the Christian God. "Modern...
Jesuit missionaries in the 18th century forged a text in French they called the "Ezourvedam" and passed it as an authentic translation of the Yajurveda from Sanskrit by a learned B...
💥 Destruction of Hindupat Padshahi by Christian Hegemony 🔥 British Cunning is extremely overlooked. Nobody has ever taken minute approach to trace astounding tricks used by them...
The 1947 coup d’état How the jewel stayed in the crown- It was a time for celebration in 1947 for the British Raj. Because the transfer of power from the Queen to an oligarchy loya...
The East India Company faced it's toughest fight in India against the Marathas at Laswari in 1803. Rajputs , Purbiyas , Jats dominated the Maratha army ranks. Only about 1200 na...
[ 1 ] A #thread on Col Tod, the famed historian on Rajput history. His work 'Annals & Antiquities of Rajasthan' is an important reference for beginners to Rajput history. In this...
When Governor-General Bentinck abolished Sati (Suttee, as Britishers called it), he had a larger-than-life statue commissioned showing him dramatically rescuing and Indian women fr...
This is how the West saw the world in 1827. https://t.co/KdLSiqyBdf
1/n THREAD | Aryan Invasion Theory debunked Lot of people have asked about 'Aryan Invasion Theory' (AIT) and where it stands today. An effort to bring various pieces together....