Marx on the Indian Revolt, the violence of the oppressed, and imperialist hypocrisy
The following short article by Karl Marx, published in the New York Daily Tribune in 1857, comments on the Indian Rebellion that…
Category: History of India
The Amritsar massacre – 100 years on: never forgive, never forget
13th April 2019 marks the centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh (Amritsar) massacre in colonial Punjab, India. Around 1,000 unarmed victims…
Indian Independence: A Revolution lost
In this article we summarise British rule in India and examine the main and most influential political characters, which eventually…
Gandhi: the myths behind the Mahatma
Mahatma Gandhi, the defining figure of the Indian nationalist campaign against British colonial rule in India, is known by most…
India and Pakistan: Traumatic Partition and the Elusive Independence
August 14th and 15th are celebrated as the days of independence of Pakistan and India from direct British imperialist rule.…
The forsaken history of liberation
South Asia’s elite historians have deliberately distorted certain events within their accounts of the struggle against British imperial rule and…
Thesis of Indian Fourth Internationalists
1941 The following document is a section of a thesis adopted in the latter part of 1941 by the formation…
The Political Relevance of Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh was an outstanding figure in the struggle for Indian independence, and paid dearly for his ideals by being…
Indian independence (part 3) – Role of the Communist Party of India during Partition
In the 1940s the Communist Party of India (CPI) was a prisoner of the policies imposed by Stalin on the…
Indian independence (Part 2) – The crime of partition
Today marks the 60th anniversary of Indian independence from British rule. In reality, the partition of India in 1947 cut…