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The Rebel who Championed a Peasant Revolt that jolted the British Agrarian reforms are problematic universally and when a traditional system is tampered with, it is bound to cause friction. This [...]

Fall of the last South Indian Kingdom to the British The English East India Company, having done away with Tipu Sultan by the end of 18th Century and subdued the Marathas in the following two [...]

The Architect of the Travancore Rebellion In the early years of the 19th Century, after the British succeeded in putting out the fires of the Pazhassi revolt in northern Kerala, the whole of [...]

“Afghan-origin Terror prime concern: India” blares out the headline of one of India’s leading dailies the other day, adding “Centre says it conveyed this to the Taliban at Qatar meeting”. Wow [...]

The First Major Uprising of the Sepoys against the British For nearly two centuries since the first Englishmen began trading in India, the Indo-British relations were largely one of cultural [...]

A Malabar Prince and his Fight to the Finish with the British Kerala, the strip of land beyond the Sahyadri, the Western Ghats, on the southwestern coastal belt of India, with its rivers, lakes [...]

The Warrior Queen who took up the gauntlet of British Imperialism As obnoxious laws go, nothing in history could probably outdo the infamous Doctrine of Lapse perpetrated by the English East [...]

Brothers Valiant who championed the South Indian Rebellion Periya, the elder, Maruthu and Chinna, the younger, Maruthu, were two brothers born five years apart in 1748 and 1753, in the village of [...]

The Last Man Standing of the Poligar Wars The dawn of the 19th Century witnessed myriad rebellions across Southern India against the British in the aftermath of their defeating and killing Tipu [...]

The Indian Rebel who played Hardball with the Victor of Waterloo Fighter par excellence, quintessential rebel, daredevil soldier and freebooter who owed his loyalty to nothing and no one except [...]