Nov 4, 2001 Here is a lesson from Mughal History. The only way to integrate any people into a larger whole is to make sure that the talented ones get employment at the level they deserve and that troublemakers are given quick and condign punishment.
Nov 1, 2001 Book Review For Biblio. Remembrance of Days Past: Glimpses of a Princely State During the Raj. By Jahanara Habibullah (Oxford University Press 134 pages). The title is reminiscent of a Marcel Proust classic. The present book essays a different kind of nostalgia with far fewer pages[134] and quite as many as seventy-five… Continue reading Book Review: Remembrance of Days Past: Glimpses of a Princely State During the Raj. By Jahanara Habibullah
August 13th, 2001 Communal riots: did they occur earlier than the British Period of Indian History [1757-1947]? Is it right to hold the British responsible for creating and nurturing the Hindu-Muslim divide which led to the Partition of India in August 1947? While the entire blame for the Hindu-Muslim divide cannot be ascribed to the… Continue reading Communal Riot 1720 AD (Part I)
August 12th, 2001 When the Mughal Empire fell into disarray the Emperor lost power. 1719 saw as many as four Princes become Emperor. In such troubled times hotheads and self seekers use religion to carve out a constituency for themselves. Mahtawee Khan Abdun Nabi a scholar of Islamic law raised the standard of revolt in… Continue reading Communal Riot in 1720 Part II
August 8th, 2001 As the majority in India is Hindu by birth and increasingly aggressive about being so we shall take an example from the history of this community to show that being Hindu by itself does not make people better. Nepal is the only Hindu monarchy in the world. The ruler or King is… Continue reading The Hindu Kingdom of Nepal 1843-47
July 29th, 2001 The India trade was the most lucrative and rewarding commercial activity from ancient times. Spices and sugar textiles and handicrafts dancing girls and musicians made a rich and resplendent cargo which excited the people with money anywhere in the world and gold flowed into the country. This situation continued until the 18th… Continue reading Silk in Mauritius: A failed enterprise
July 29th, 2001 When empires collapse and disintegrate historians, like schoolmasters correcting tutorial essays award grades to rulers. The British chroniclers of Indian history pronounced judgement on the House of Amir Timur (Teymour : Tamerlane, or the iron man with a game leg). The first six Emperors to rule India, Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah… Continue reading Why Awrungzeyb was not a “Great” Mughal [Arungzeb]
July 20th, 2001 The post independence image of India from 1947- 1977 was of a country with self respect and capable of charting its own course and providing some kind of alternative to nations reluctant to be camp followers of either the USA or the Soviets. Them happy days are, Alas! over and even the… Continue reading British Raj and Indian Coolies
July 16th, 2001 Mauritius figures in Indian media today on account of its being a tax haven. All FFIs or Foreign Financial Institutions operating in India are registered in Mauritius to escape the liability of the Indian Capital Gains Tax.
July 11th, 2001 Deputy Commissioner 12.7.2001 M.C.D. Dear Sir Horticulture and Sanitation in our colony
