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Post-Independence India
The Streets Speak: Social Movements in Post-Independence India
From anti-Hindi agitations to farm-law repeals, from Dalit Panthers to Pinjra Tod: how organised ordinary people, outside parties and Parliament, kept rewriting the republic.
30 September 2026 · 24 min read
Post-Independence India
77 Years on One Page: The Master Timeline of Independent India
Every high-yield date from 1947 to 2024 on one page: independence, wars, Emergency, 1991 reforms, Pokhran-II, GST, Chandrayaan-3. The rapid-revision spine of the whole library.
27 September 2026 · 59 min read
Modern History
From Company Rule to Freedom: The Constitutional Arc, 1773-1947
From the Regulating Act of 1773 to the Independence Act of 1947 - the full constitutional arc that taught India the grammar of modern government.
27 September 2026 · 34 min read
Modern History
Drawing the Line: Why India Was Partitioned in 1947
Why India was divided in 1947: the collapse of compromise, Mountbatten's 72-day timetable, the Independence Act, and the human cost.
27 September 2026 · 22 min read
Governance
Regulatory bodies in India: why the umpire must be independent
Born after the 1991 reforms, India’s regulators referee everything from telecom to food safety. Why they exist, what powers they wield, and why their independence is always under negotiation.
27 September 2026 · 24 min read
Polity
Bodies that run India: constitutional vs statutory vs executive
Constitutional, statutory or executive: sorting India's major institutions into their three boxes, and why the box decides each body's independence.
27 September 2026 · 38 min read
Polity
Elections in India: the Commission, the law and the 2025 flashpoints
How India runs the world's largest elections: the Commission's independence, the controversial 2023 appointments law, and 2025's SIR battle and ECINET digitisation.
27 September 2026 · 36 min read