Historical Commentary
18 Threads
Looking back to when I was a kid in the 90s, there were numerous wake up moments for White Americans about the hate against them and the future, but that generation ignored it. The...
Analysis of Nehru in 1936-7: "(...)he has all the makings of a dictator in him—vast popularity, a strong will, energy, pride(...)Caesarism is always at the door, and is it not pos...
There’s another reason Bose’s legacy was played down in India over the ages, beyond personal scruples with Nehru and Gandhi. Accepting Bose’s legacy would mean accepting an alterna...
You all saw the movie KESARI & how beautifully Bollywood has shown "British slaves" as freedom fighters while afghans as enemies It's shown how 21 Jatt Sikhs resisted Afghans whic...
1/ What are the reasons for Russia's Blyatskrieg – its rapid collapse east of Kharkiv – and why might Napoleon Bonaparte have known some of the answers? Here's a 🧵 exploring some p...
The British monarchy is just ceremonial and has been this way for 800 years. Its power is nominal, i.e. it only exists in name. The actual power lies with the "Templar Crown", a.k....
Many want us to believe British Raj in India was good for Indians, after all they build railways, gave english education & laws, Right? In reality ATROCITIES carried out by Britis...
Well over one million whites were enslaved in North Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries, most of them abducted and sold by Muslim pirates. Africans were raiding Europe for s...
RW folk and a gamut of Hindutva pamphleteers relentlessly quote the late #American historian Will Durant - often erroneously - to supplement their regular #Islamophobic feed and no...
It is shocking just how quickly this has happened. How did British people go from having the oldest and most successful country in the world to being a stateless minority group i...
This is blowing people’s minds, so as an amateur historian and sociologist I’m going to try to explain this development/ cultural artifact. https://t.co/vNF0MMpMFK
To all the Phantoms jumping up and down, last time Harimandir was attacked and captured by invaders, it were Sahajdhari Hindu Marathas who fought and got is back and gave it to Pan...
I am sincerely amazed at the response to these tweets. I am simply narrating what I saw and how it's different from the version some very nice humans are peddling here. I know tha...
i grew up with extended blackouts, dark streets, hand-washed clothes, the ever possibility of spoiled food, a candle outside the door of our apartment. i recently came home after t...
Appropriation of Guru Purnima: Traditionally, Hindus celebrate Guru Purnima to mark the birth of Rishi Veda Vyasa on the full moon of Āṣāḍha month. Recently, there has been such...
Hello world, I still can't get over the "speech to the nation" I watched yesterday. I don’t know how much time I have left with fragments of freedom, so I’m writing to you now th...
As a Tennessean, it makes me sick that there are monuments standing in our state that celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things. Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford For...
Racist/fascist things Winston Churchill has said/done, A thread: https://t.co/NNetFAI3pr
