The Indian Spy in Kashgar – Part 2/3
(Approach to Yarkand. A sketch by Robert Shaw) (Read Part 1) In December 1868, Mirza left Badakshan towards Kashgar. The winter travel was not easy on him or his porters or the animals. Some days both...
View ArticleThe Indian Spy in Kashgar – Part 3/3
(Another sketch by Robert Shaw in 1868) (Read Part 1, Part 2) The Kashgar Drama The first man to reach Kashgar was Robert Shaw. Stocked with gifts and firearms, he went to meet Yakub Beg. Beg smiled...
View ArticleThe man who coined 'Hindooism'
In 1767, a 21 year old Charles Grant, like many other twenty year olds traveled to India to join the East India Company’s military service. Arriving in Bengal, he was offended by the corrupt activities...
View ArticleConverting Tiger Woods
When it was discovered that Tiger Woods had a distributed harem, one of the issues that came up was his faith: Woods is Buddhist. Fox News anchor Brit Hume suggested that Tiger convert to Christianity...
View ArticleSecret Chambers etc.
From the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators dept comes this news. A secret chamber, without an entrance, has been found in National Library, Calcutta. Now, you may ask, how do you find a...
View ArticleIn Pragati: Book Review – Operation Red Lotus by Parag Tope
In late 1856, some strange practices began to surface in parts of north India. Red lotus flowers were circulated in garrisons which housed the Native Infantry. The subedar would line up the troops and...
View ArticleIn Pragati: Book Review – Churchill’s Secret War by Madhusree Mukherjee
Winston Churchill (Image via ChrisM70) Three days after Germany invaded France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, Winston Churchill inspired Britain with the words, “I have nothing to offer but...
View ArticleSree Padmanabhaswamy and Subhas Chandra Bose
In 1941, a British official in Chennai received an anonymous letter which claimed that Subhas Chandra Bose had returned to India and was living in the premises of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple. The...
View ArticleIndian History Carnival – 44:Āgamaḍambara, Kokila Sandeśa, 1857, de Havilland
Palace of Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula at Lucknow (wikipedia) Complete Review has a review of Jayánta Bhaṭṭa’s Sanskrit play Āgamaḍambara Much Ado about Religion, written about 900, is a didactic play that...
View ArticleDisciplined English Tyranny
1816 CE, Barbados In 1816, Bussa, an African born, slave who was between thirty and forty years old worked as a chief ranger at the Bayleys sugar plantation in St. Philip in Barbados. He was probably...
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