He has seen that the youngsters are weighed down by the baggage of generations of subservience and have forgotten to dream of an alternative world. So Mukesh’s dream of going to a garage and learning to be a motor-mechanic is an attempt to break-free off the mind-numbing toil...
A Whig interpretation of British India is offered in some of the editing of the English East India Company volumes, a suggestion that we should see the early voyages as laying the foundations of later British rule over the sub-continent. But the same editors can be read against the grain ...