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Swadeshi 1905: Boycott, Bande Mataram, and India's First Mass Classroom

For three years Bengal tried to live without Britain, boycotting Manchester cloth, building Indian mills and national schools. The Swadeshi movement was India's first mass classroom, and its laboratory for everything Gandhi later used.

1911 to 1949: How China Buried an Empire and Built a Revolution

China ended imperial rule in 1911, then spent four decades in warlordism, united fronts and civil war. How the communists moved from the cities to the countryside, survived the Long March, and proclaimed the People's Republic in 1949.

The Small Revolution: Nanotechnology

Gold that turns red at a billionth of a metre: what nanotechnology is, India's Nano Mission, its uses in medicine, chips, energy and farming, and the risks of the very small.