Viscount Valentia's diary recording his journey from Calcutta to Bhagalpur provides a candid picture of how an unapologetic colonist views Indians as an inferior people
On January 26, 1803, Wellesley throws a lavish dinner at Lok Bhavan, Calcutta, attended by Valentia. Its extravagance is funded by the British plunder of India.
When Valentia visits Lucknow, the Nawab of Awadh tells him that his people think that the East India Company is an old Woman, Wellesley is her son and Valentia, her grandson
A forgotten incident of a nondescript mosque in Kanpur's Machli Bazar triggered the horrific Khilafat violence culminating in the Moplah genocide of Malabar Hindus
The first part of a series narrating the tragic history of the heartless destruction of traditional Hindu Dharma-Chhatrams by the colonial British. This episode tells the woeful tale of how the East India Company impoverished hundreds of Hindu charitable institutions throughout the Thanjavur Samstha
In the concluding episode we examine some fundamental contrasts with the Western framework of Indology and offer a few guides to decolonise the Hindu psyche.
A little-studied period of recent Indian history is the Golden Age of the New Indian Renaissance spanning the mid 19th to the mid 20th century. The jaw-dropping contribution of this period to Hindu decolonisation is a sure shot guide for our own time.
