Valentia in Varanasi
George Viscount Valentia, an Earl in England embarked on a trip to India in 1802 and published a detailed record of his experiences in three volumes
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
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
How the British Broke Our Charitable Institutions and Created a Nation of Beggars
Note: This essay is the second part of The Dharma Dispatch series documenting the methodical and systematic manner in which the British not only destroyed Indian food production but converted the country into a nation of beggars. This series has been excerpted from the meticulously researched book, “Annam Bahukurvita” authored