“The spark cannot just be kept alive through fighting,” declares one of the characters in Khan Mahboob Tarzi’s novel, “The Break of Dawn.” The words are spoken at the end of the Indian Mutiny (also ...

What is the similarity between British retribution after recapturing Delhi from mutineers in 1857 and the Israeli state’s raging military operation in Gaza today? The two incidents may be separated by ...

The great revolt of 1857 was a momentous struggle against colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent—the most widespread anti-colonial struggle during the nineteenth century. It began in the second week ...

Throughout history, colonization has failed whenever and wherever it has sought to challenge and demolish indigenous beliefs, mores, and social systems. British colonial regime’s missionary zeal to ...

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