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History
Money and Nationalism: The Capitalist Class in the Freedom Struggle
Mill owners who funded the Congress but feared the streets: FICCI 1927, the rupee and tariff grievances, constitutional methods, the Bombay Plan of 1944, and the permanent tension with labour and the left.
30 September 2026 · 11 min read
International Relations
UNESCO: culture, science and soft power
UNESCO is the UN agency for education, science and culture, custodian of the World Heritage List. This article covers its 1945 founding, mandate, heritage conventions, the US withdrawal saga, and India's 43 World Heritage Sites.
30 September 2026 · 15 min read
GS-4
The ethics answer toolkit: diagrams, keywords and checklists for GS-4
Ten diagrams you can redraw from memory, a vault of precision keywords, a 13-year topic checklist and the case-study frameworks - the complete answer-writing toolkit for the GS-4 ethics paper.
30 September 2026 · 17 min read
History
Beyond the Congress: Jana Sangh, Socialists, Liberals, Swatantra and the Communists Who Ran Kerala
The parties outside the Congress umbrella: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1951), the Socialist breakaway (1948), the Liberal Federation of Sapru, the Swatantra Party as 1967's largest opposition, Kerala's first Communist government (1957) and the 1969 bank nationalization.
30 September 2026 · 26 min read
CSAT
Number Series for CSAT
Number series for CSAT: the pattern checklist covering AP, GP, squares, cubes, difference ladders, interleaved and Fibonacci series, with worked examples and practice MCQs.
29 September 2026 · 9 min read
Internal Security
Fractured Frontiers: North-East Insurgency and Separatism
State-wise histories of North-East insurgency, the Chicken's Neck, a decade of peace accords, AFSPA's calibrated rollback, and the Khalistan movement's rise, measures and implications.
29 September 2026 · 35 min read
Modern History
The men who ruled India: Governor-Generals and Viceroys, and the reforms prelims loves to match
From Warren Hastings to Mountbatten: who ruled India, when, and which reform belongs to whom. The viceroy-reform match-list is prelims' favourite format; this article is its home.
28 September 2026 · 35 min read
World History
1917: The Year Russia Rewrote the Rules of Power
In eight months, Russia buried a 300-year monarchy and birthed the world's first socialist state. The causes, the two revolutions of 1917, and why the shockwaves reached all the way to India.
27 September 2026 · 15 min read
Modern History
Red Flags in the Mills: Workers, Communists and Socialists
AITUC, the Meerut trial, the Tashkent communists and the Congress Socialists, the left flank that made the freedom struggle about bread as well as flags.
27 September 2026 · 22 min read
Modern History
The Soil Rebels: Peasant Movements That Forced India to Listen
From the indigo fields of Bengal to the armed villages of Telangana, peasant revolts fed the national movement its mass base, and its toughest questions about who freedom was really for.
27 September 2026 · 23 min read
Modern History
The Classroom Raj: Education Under British Rule
Macaulay's Minute, Wood's Despatch, and a century of commissions: how colonial education built clerks, and accidentally built nationalists.
27 September 2026 · 34 min read
Modern History
Ink Against Empire: The Press Under British Rule
From Hickey's Gazette to the Vernacular Press Act: how the nationalist press defied censorship and became a weapon of the freedom struggle.
27 September 2026 · 34 min read
Modern History
The Other Freedom Struggle: Bombs, Martyrs and the Socialist Turn
They chose the pistol over the spinning wheel, and lost. But Bhagat Singh, Azad and Surya Sen rewired the meaning of freedom itself, forcing the Congress to think beyond merely replacing white rulers with brown ones.
27 September 2026 · 23 min read
Art & Culture
Who guards the past? UNESCO lists, the ASI, and India's heritage frontline
44 World Heritage sites, 16 living traditions, one 1,600-year-old iron pillar, and a constant fight against smugglers, floods and neglect. How India protects its heritage.
27 September 2026 · 31 min read
Art & Culture
What makes a language 'classical'? The 20-year battle for the label
Six languages became eleven in 2024, and the criteria themselves were rewritten. Know the list, the years, and why the label matters beyond pride.
27 September 2026 · 23 min read
International Relations
India-UK: CETA, Vision 2035 and the living bridge
The 2025 Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement reset the economic relationship, Vision 2035 set the decade's agenda, and 1.8 million Indian-origin Britons form the living bridge. The frictions, from Khalistan to extradition, remain.
27 September 2026 · 12 min read
Polity
The Preamble, decoded: reading the Constitution's identity card
A line-by-line decoding of the Constitution's shortest and most quoted paragraph, from the Objectives Resolution to the 42nd Amendment and the 2024 court battle over 'socialist' and 'secular'.
27 September 2026 · 29 min read