South Asian History

South Asia has suffered from several mis-portrayals that have reduced the understanding of its historical development to the spiritual realm, whereas in fact, the region has made several contributions in the areas of science, technology, art and literature, and prior to the colonial period, it was a major world supplier of high quality pre-industrial manufactures. Here are links to various articles covering different period of its history.

Ancient India
The Glory of Ancient India
The State and Commodity Production in the Magdhan State
Medieval India
An Industrial Miracle in a Golden Age: The 17th-Century Cloth Exports of India
Colonial India
The Salt Tax
Plunder of India and the Industrial Revolution
Freedom Struggle
       Unsung Heroes of the Freedom Struggle
       Peasant Revolts
       The Revolt of 1857
Gadar (Ghadar) Movement
               Gadar Party 1913-1915
               Important Documents of the Gadar Movement
               The Revolutionary Poetry of the Gadar Movement
               Revolutionary Struggle for India's Freedom
       Planting Communalism
Partition
       Direct Action Day
       The Great Migration
       The Messiah and the Promised Land
Freedom and After
       Fifty Years of Freedom
       Communalism
                History
                Punjab in the 1980s
                Delhi - 1984
                Kashmir in the 1990s & 2000s
                Gujarat - 2002
       Kashmir
                Self Determination & Secession
                Funding Terror
                The Forgotten Minority
                Refugees in their Own Land
                Baltistan

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