Colonial era

South Asia 1757–1947.

World War I (from an Indian viewpoint)

A note on the roughly 1.4 million Indians who took part in the First World War, mostly from Punjab, regretting that Indian historians have neglected the subject, with a quoted…

Brown Pundits Archive22 March 20140 comments
The West India company

A note linking Taymoor Soomro’s Dawn account of the East India Company as a monopolistic, state-backed forerunner of modern corporate power.

Brown Pundits Archive21 March 20140 comments
the 14th Ferozepur Sikh regiment…and some others

Hamid Hussain traces the 14th Ferozepore Sikhs from their raising in 1846 after the First Anglo-Sikh War, covering the 1857 uprising, Lieutenant Brasyer’s role, its First World War service and…

Brown Pundits Archive14 March 20140 comments
White Commonwealth will save the world

The poster answers an argument that a ‘White Commonwealth’ could steward the world, saying brown elites may welcome it as an escape from responsibility, and that it whitewashes the fate…

Brown Pundits Archive9 March 20140 comments
The bridge stretches from Pune to Potsdam

An extract on Raghunath Purushottam Paranjpye as a bridge between India and Germany, with the poster noting Germany’s long admiration of Indian culture and asking whether it had anti-Semitic undertones.

Brown Pundits Archive8 March 20141 comment
The (unsung) mutiny (1946)

A 94-year-old eyewitness’s account of the 1946 Royal Indian Navy mutiny, with the poster noting the mutineers were never employed by either the Indian or Pakistani navy.

Brown Pundits Archive4 March 20140 comments
1857

An extract on the 26th Native Infantry’s 1857 mutiny at Mian Mir and the Ajnala well where the mutineers were killed, which the poster calls shared history of Hindus, Sikhs…

Brown Pundits Archive3 March 20140 comments
A stirring reminder of India’s role in the British Empire

A shared fact that India paid £479 million for Britain’s First World War, with the poster amused that an ancient civilisation is billed as a ‘young lion’ beside Australia, Canada…

Brown Pundits Archive10 February 20140 comments