Category: History

  • Invisible Histories- A review on articles , “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and “Predicaments of Secular Histories”

    History, we may simply claim, is a flawed discipline since it is very prejudiced. It is a set of multiple narratives, unlike other disciplines, there are no paradigms or fixed notions in a discipline like this, since, more or less, from what I could gather, it has been written in a certain way and different…

  • An Enemy Like Me by Teri Brown – Book Review

    Teri Brown’s historical novel, “An Enemy Like Me,” focuses on the life of a soldier named Jacob Miller in World War II. Teri Brown overturns the popular idea of a glorious war hero by showing the daily life of Jacob Miller before the war. The ordinary human conflicts of the American soldiers outside the battlefield…

  • 10 Historians from the U.S. and their contributions

    According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a historian is “a student or writer of history, one who produces a scholarly synthesis”. Apart from this concise meaning, a historian is also a person who preserves and transmits old traditions and ideas forward to the next generation, they become responsible for the structuring of the world. The United…

  • Role of the Brahmo Samaj in Social Movements – Women Empowerment

    Role of the Brahmo Samaj in social movements aimed at improving the position of Women in Bengal The position of women in society as a topic of discussion can more often than not, be summarised into one single word – abysmal. The overwhelming presence that patriarchal societies possess, across the globe is arguably the first…

  • Teaching War: Pedagogy of History in the Classroom

    Teaching about World War II and other global conflicts in the classroom can be a daunting but imperative task for teachers. The dilemma of providing an all round coverage of the happenings of the war while also setting the context about wars through nuances of the cultural context of the victors can be a daunting…

  • American Civil War (Summary): History, Causes, Events

    The American Civil War Summary: The United States has a short history. It is dominated by two interconnected events, which are both wars. The first was the late-eighteenth century Revolutionary War, and the second was the mid-nineteenth-century Civil War. Although the first event is celebrated widely for providing the country with its independence, the American…

  • Shyamji Krishna Varma: Biography, Works and Contribution

    Shyamji Krishna Varma was born in the year 1857 and completed his primary education from the current day state of Gujarat before heading on to teach Sanksrit at Oxford University, He was also well versed with the law as a subject and frequently shuttled between the two countries alternating roles between learning and building a…