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Outlook Magazine - 31 March 2014
WW I: India's Great War
Two academics hold Gujarat up against other states to see if it grew more in the Modi decade than in the preceding 20 years
The Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls College, Oxford, on all aspects of the event
The spectre of free love between white women and desi sepoys alarmed the Raj
For four years, the Great War had no close season. These are the personages who prompted that war, conducted the conflict, and led their nations during it.
Greater federalism, more power to the states. That’ll be Modi’s ploy to reel in regional players if the BJP gets a chance at government.
Two academics hold Gujarat up against other states to see if it grew more in the Modi decade than in the preceding 20 years
The Maharajah of Bikaner, consummate soldier and Peace Treaty signatory
The Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls College, Oxford, on all aspects of the event
Khushwant’s largeness of heart easily accommodated his few weaknesses
Prolific, generous, wicked maverick—his epitaph had no higher aim
The spectre of free love between white women and desi sepoys alarmed the Raj
For four years, the Great War had no close season. These are the personages who prompted that war, conducted the conflict, and led their nations during it.
India Gate, our WW-I cenotaph, now stands for an abstracted ideal
Greater federalism, more power to the states. That’ll be Modi’s ploy to reel in regional players if the BJP gets a chance at government.
OTHER STORIES
If BJP gets within striking distance, will Modi be able to do a Vajpayee, get the allies?
Indian cinema’s start became slower in the war, but didn’t wane
Not just Mulk Raj Anand and Nazrul, sepoys wrote literature too
The ‘globalising’ world of the 21st century teeters on war as dangerously as in 1914
The most international of all fronts, the Ottoman Front was what made it a World War
The families of some First World War heroes in India have become ‘military clans’
Soldiers’ letters bore the taste of cordite and a complex smell of fears, expectations
The Great War effort forced the British hand, sowed the seeds for Hind swaraj
Indians fought for the empire. Their lost hopes cost the British dear.
How would he reconcile support for a bloody war with ahimsa?
What and Why and When and How and Where and Who
The eerie relevance of ‘the first calamity of the 20th century’
An overview: the hope, the turning points, the causes, the belligerents, the impact, the futility...
A profound, philosophical take on life and its many existentialist crises.
Chakravarthy is an expert on ancient temples of Tamil Nadu and wants to launch an iPad version of <I>The Road Less Travelled</i>, his book on the state's temples
I am called ‘Kadak Kakade’ because I am a strict bloke who brooks no nonsense.
Come May 16, Narendra Modi will be prime minister of India. Time for some serious thinking for his critics