In 1963, an Indian Navy sailor named AS Gill, who was a Leading Aircraft Ordnance Mechanic, stole a Navy fighter jet from the Meenambakkam civil airport in Chennai.
On August 12, 1963, a British-made...
The East India Company tried to use marble portrait statues commissioned by the company in 1760, depicting men dressed as Romans, to lionize Robert Clive. However, their attempt failed, as less than a decade later, Robert Clive's...
Rani Velu Nachiyar was the Tamil queen who led an army of women against the East India Company.
“She will be amongst the best French speakers of the land, my lord.”
Robots powered by water and clockwork were built by medieval Indian engineers, and multiple courts with whom they interacted also possessed them. These robots are well-attested by credible travelers.
One of the most fascinating,...
Colonial exploitation included heritage theft, in which India's wealth of heritage, antiquities, and artifacts were exported to the colonizers' home bases. They shamelessly adorned their own museums and galleries with these treasures, and this practice continues unabated...
Ceri-Anne Fidler, in her doctoral thesis, describes how food was used to oppress Indian sailors on colonial ships.
“The lascar was always sallow. It didn’t helpthat his name anagrammed rascal. He carrieda...
In 1810, the Cherokees could have rightfully claimed that the United States had stolen the five million acres ceded in 1805, and the US still owed the Cherokees an estimated amount of $43.5 million.
The discovery of a Buddha Statue by a Polish-US mission points to ancient civilizational links between India and Egypt.
India's Buddhist traditions left their trail of ascetic uniqueness in ancient Egypt. A statue of...
An 18th-century East India Company merchant named John Pybus offers advice on tax dodging and bribery in his notes.
East India Company merchant John Pybus compiled notes about the practicalities of trade in various...
Nikola Tesla's writings, predicting the internet and even cellphones decades before they were actually invented, were published in "The Century Magazine" in an essay titled "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy." These writings have been recovered and...
