History

The Emperor and the Shogun: Understanding Japanese History

I have so far covered some information about Tokugawa Ieyasu in three blog posts: The Glorious son of Japan, Resolution in Defeat and...

Ieyasu as Shogun: setting up the succession

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the great unifier of Japan, became the Shogun (essentially military ruler) of Japan in 1603, three years after his...

The Scindias – Traitors?

One of the most enduring presuppositions in the Indian Historical narrative surrounding the 1857 Revolt or the First War of Independence...

Resolution in defeat: the Ieyasu way

or How to win after being massacred on the battlefield, holding out with 120 Soldiers against 35,000 Takeda Shingen, the fearsome daimyo...

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the glorious son of Japan

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the third and last unifier of Japan. Image source: sumpu.net Introduction Each and every single moment in the past has...

The Russian Aristocrats: What happened to them?

An interesting question has been bothering me for quite a few days. Namely, what happened to the Russian Aristocracy after the Russian...

The titles used by the Cholas; An Examination (Part-I)

While researching for the three articles that I wrote (1, 2, and 3 respectively), I came across the interesting titles the Chola Kings...

The Lost History

The scars that 200 years of Western Colonization left behind in India are many. One of those many scars is the loss of our history. Our...