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World History
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.
1 October 2026 · 21 min read
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
History
Swaraj, Three Ways: Gandhi, Nehru and Bose on Freedom, the Economy and the State
The freedom struggle was a coalition of ideologies, not a monolith: Gandhi's moral swaraj, Nehru's industrial republic, Bose's armed liberation, Ambedkar's social justice, Savarkar's cultural nationalism. Master the comparisons UPSC asks, plus the Mains 2020 strands framework.
30 September 2026 · 16 min read
International Relations
India-Central Asia: the extended neighbourhood
Five republics, one connectivity veto: uranium and gas stakes, Chabahar and INSTC corridors, the SCO anchor, and the New Great Game India must navigate.
28 September 2026 · 11 min read
World History
Taxes, Tea, and a New Republic: The American Revolution
A tax on paper cost Britain an empire. How the American Revolution (1765-1783) turned a revolt against mercantilism into the world's first written constitution, and why the Civil War had to finish its work.
27 September 2026 · 12 min read
Post-Independence India
Nehru's Blueprint: How a Newborn Republic Built Itself, 1947-64
In 1947 experts expected India to collapse. By 1964 it was the world's largest democracy with steel plants, atomic research and a global voice. How the Nehru years built the Indian state - and what they got wrong.
27 September 2026 · 48 min read
Post-Independence India
Writing the World's Longest Constitution: Inside the Constituent Assembly, 1946-50
The world's longest constitution was written between 1946 and 1950 by an assembly arguing over federalism, language, minority rights and property, while a civil war raged outside. Inside the debates that built the republic.
27 September 2026 · 25 min read
Polity
Salient features of the Indian Constitution: why no other constitution looks like it
The longest written constitution in the world, decoded: its borrowed sources, its quasi-federal design, parliamentary republic, rights architecture, and the philosophy of socialism and secularism underneath.
27 September 2026 · 37 min read