Category: History & Heritage

  • From Mughal Empire To British Empire – Bengal Monuments Survive

    Today, we are going to talk about those crumbling monuments which saw the transition from the Mughal empire to British empire and had sown the seed of colonialism in India back in 1757 when the British East India Company’s Robert Clive defeated the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-Daula in the Battle of Plassey

  • Andaman – Remembering the Place & the People Beyond the Blue Waters

    “All Andamanese tradition dates back to some great cataclysm which submerged a greater part of the land. The Andamanese say that before this cataclysm they were all one tribe, and spoke the same language, but that after it, the survivors became separated into tribes, their languages gradually differed until at last they became mutually unintelligible…

  • Proving Citizenship? A Movement, A Massacre, The Assam Accord

    In late 1979 a mass movement emerged in Assam against illegal immigrants who were fast filling up the state. In the present NRC struggle for proving citizenship,  this movement deserves a special mention to know the history of the state. So here’s a glimpse of the half a decade long Assam Movement where the Assam…