Showing posts with label Indian history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian history. Show all posts
Thursday, December 11, 2025

How the British Empire was replaced by the British Commonwealth

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“We refer to the group of self-governing communities composed of Great Britain and the Dominions. Their position and mutual relation may be ...
Thursday, October 2, 2025

A review of “Gandhi” (1982 movie with Ben Kingsley)

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“ The government of the territories now in the possession or under the government of the [British] East India Company , and all powers in re...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

The Seven Years’ War was a massive worldwide conflict

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“The free exercise of the roman religion [in Canada] is granted, likewise safe guards to all religious persons, as well as to the Bishop, w...
Sunday, December 8, 2024

Forgotten battlegrounds of the World Wars: Asia and the Pacific

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Warning: This blog post contains some disturbing pictures. One of these, in particular, is very graphic, and may merit special caution. We a...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

A review of Michael Wood’s “In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great”

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“Whilst the Amphictyonic confederacy remained, that of the Achaeans, which comprehended the less important cities only, made little figure o...
Monday, May 22, 2023

A review of “Science in Antiquity” (audiobook)

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People have been curious about the natural world for as long as human beings have existed. The scientific impulse began very early in our hi...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

A review of “Islam” (audiobook)

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“ Allah—there is no god ˹worthy of worship˺ except Him . He has the Most Beautiful Names.” – English translation of The Quran, Surah 20:8 Is...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

A review of Robert McCrum’s “The Story of English” (book)

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In 1986, there were two versions of “The Story of English” – a television series, and a book. I never got to see much of the television seri...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Forgotten battlegrounds of the Cold War: South Asia and Indonesia

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“ We the people of Indonesia hereby declare the independence of Indonesia . Matters which concern the transfer of power and other things w...
Friday, May 24, 2019

A review of “Queen Victoria's Empire” (PBS Empires)

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“ ♪ Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves. And Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. ♪ ” – “Rule, Britannia!” (1740) , a B...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

A review of the BBC's “The Story of Maths” (by Marcus du Sautoy)

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“Maths is the true language that the universe is written in  –  the key to understanding the world around us.” – Marcus du Sautoy, in th...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Bedtime stories about Armageddon: The lessons of the Cold War about nuclear weapons

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“I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture … ‘ And I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ’ I suppose we all thought that, one w...
Monday, August 15, 2016

A review of Michael Wood's “The Story of India”

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"As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions shall be set up in India , to be kn...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Reflections on studying the history of languages (and how they change over time)

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So I recently read a book called "Historical Linguistics" (3rd edition) , by Winfred P. Lehmann , which talks about the way that...
Monday, September 23, 2013

A review of Melvyn Bragg's “The Adventure of English” (ITV)

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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." - William Shakespeare 's "...
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