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Sep 15, 20193 min read
The Emperor and the Shogun: Understanding Japanese History
I have so far covered some information about Tokugawa Ieyasu in three blog posts: The Glorious son of Japan, Resolution in Defeat and...
Sep 10, 20194 min read
Ieyasu as Shogun: setting up the succession
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the great unifier of Japan, became the Shogun (essentially military ruler) of Japan in 1603, three years after his...
Jan 30, 20194 min read
The Scindias – Traitors?
One of the most enduring presuppositions in the Indian Historical narrative surrounding the 1857 Revolt or the First War of Independence...
Aug 30, 20184 min read
Resolution in defeat: the Ieyasu way
or How to win after being massacred on the battlefield, holding out with 120 Soldiers against 35,000 Takeda Shingen, the fearsome daimyo...
Aug 24, 20185 min read
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the glorious son of Japan
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the third and last unifier of Japan. Image source: sumpu.net Introduction Each and every single moment in the past has...
Jun 26, 20183 min read
The Russian Aristocrats: What happened to them?
An interesting question has been bothering me for quite a few days. Namely, what happened to the Russian Aristocracy after the Russian...
Apr 9, 20174 min read
What you think is not the last word on things.
Written in response to “The cow is not our mother, Hindutva means nothing to us”: A devout and ‘proud’ Malayali Hindu” This article was...
Dec 20, 20163 min read
A tribute to the Cholas :An Introduction A little over 10 months ago, I published a small article…
A tribute to the Cholas :An Introduction A little over 10 months ago, I published a small article called The Lost History about how many...
Feb 5, 20163 min read
The Lost History
The scars that 200 years of Western Colonization left behind in India are many. One of those many scars is the loss of our history. Our...