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The Portuguese onslaught Part 3: How a naval battle off the tiny port of Diu, Gujarat changed the world and sealed India’s fate for...

Rukma Rathore - 3 February, 2025

The most important outcome of the "Battle of Diu" was that it confirmed that the Portuguese were in India to stay. Almeida had announced prophetically that those who rule the seas will rule the lands too.

Political History of India

UK’s richest 10 per cent took half of the $64.82 trillion wealth looted from India: A reckoning with Britain’s rapacious colonial legacy

Rukma Rathore - 20 January, 2025

The British middle class was also greatly benefited from the wealth looted from India while Indians were left to suffer in poverty.

News Reports

UK agrees to hand over sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius after negotiations assisted by India and the USA, American military based on Diego...

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2024

the United Kingdom has announced its decision to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius

Books

How Varna of Vedic era has been corrupted into vote-bank and caste-wars in modern times. Evolution of ‘caste’ though ages

Rajiv Malhotra - 9 July, 2024

What ‘caste’ was in the Vedic era, how it interplays with birth and occupation, and how it has evolved through various stages of history. An excerpt from Rajiv Malhotra’s book.

Opinions

The Brown Sahibs, blind criticism of the nation, and the subjugation of a people: How finally, it is ‘India that is ruling India’

Virender Kapoor - 9 July, 2024

If you want applause, cheering, and claps as an Indian, anywhere in a foreign land and also in urban India - you must abuse your nation.

Opinions

How colonialism impacted the way we eat, and still continues to plague our way of eating

Virender Kapoor - 23 September, 2023

Almost 80 years ago, there used to be brass plate which had a rude message- ‘right of admission reserved’ outside many restaurants in CP (Connaught Place), oops Rajiv chowk now.

World

‘We don’t want your money, use it to sponsor a weight loss program for Victoria Nuland’: Niger’s military rulers tell USA

Sanghamitra - 10 August, 2023

Victoria Nuland was allowed to meet only the new military chief of staff Brigadier General Moussa Salaou Barmou, not the new leader General Abdourahamane Tchiani or the deposed President Bazoum.

News Reports

British archive reveals enormous loot of precious Indian resources during colonialism: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 7 April, 2023

Queen Elizabeth II was spotted handling the 'Timur Ruby' in a 1969 BBC documentary 'Royal Family.'

‘Most severe policy-induced mortality crisis in human history’: New Research shows British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years

OpIndia Staff - 3 December, 2022

During the height of British colonialism, around 100 million individuals died before their natural age in India.

Opinions

The very media that celebrates Rishi Sunak, derided PM Modi for his ‘Hinduness’ – the result of a colonised mind

Virender Kapoor - 17 November, 2022

Telegraph, which targeted Modi when he visited temples, is going gaga over Rishi Sunak meeting King Charles in Buckingham palace with his sacred thread tied to his wrist.

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