Diwan Purnaiah’s Dharma Chhatrams and the Lessons they Teach
An essay on the sprawling network of Dharma Chhatrams founded by Purnaiah, the eminent Diwan to three Mysore Kings and the lessons they teach us
Worse than Asuras: How the British Inflicted Hunger on Indians by Killing Dharma-Chhatrams
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
The Lost Access to the Hindu Societal Past
Unlike Muslim regimes, the British consciously destroyed traditional Hindu institutions as a result of which today's Hindu society has lost access to its own societal past.
Podcast #79: How British Colonialism of India Created a Nation of Beggars
This is the second and concluding part of The Dharma Podcast series explaining the methodical and systematic manner in which the colonial British destroyed Hindu charitable institutions. In the previous part of this podcast series, we’ve seen how the Governor General Wellesley drastically reduced the endowments given to Hindu
Podcast #78: How the British Systematically Destroyed Hindu Charitable Institutions: The Untold Story
It is a well known fact that India has never fully recovered from the all-encompassing horrors of British colonial rule. Both the human and the economic genocide carried out by the British against is well known. There's the famous research published by Columbia university which calculated that