[SOURCE"In the East End of London, revivalist preacher William Booth and his wife Catherine establish the Christian Mission, later known as the Salvation Army. Determined to wage war against the evils of poverty and religious indifference with military efficiency, Booth modeled his Methodist sect after the British army, labeling uniformed ministers ( Read more... )

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What do Islamophobes and Islamists have in common? Great quote from Radical by Maajid Nawaz. pic.twitter.com/1bwSjRKXKM
- Justin Cartwright (@JustinKaneC) November 11, 2014

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Chattri, Brighton is where fallen Hindu and Sikh soldiers of #WW1 were cremated.

Remembered forever #LestWeForget pic.twitter.com/rLRUhQjzpx
- Matthew Ward (@HistoryNeedsYou) November 10, 2014

I never knew such a memorial existed in this country. Seems obvious now. I hope to visit it one day.

According to Wikipedia, "Over one million Indian troops ( Read more... )

This makes for morbid reading.

(HT @LondonHistorian)

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"ONE DAY IN EARLY FEBRUARY 2002, a 12-year-old girl named Anika, the daughter of a senior engineer at Larsen and Toubro in Surat, got word she would be giving a dance performance at her school’s annual day on 1 March. It was to be her first dance in costume, and Anika insisted that her grandparents, who lived in Ahmedabad, should come to Surat to ( Read more... )

Amartya Sen is arguably India's greatest living public intellectual. In 1998 he won the Nobel Prize in Economics1. His award was a matter of great pride for us Indians. But it wasn't until dad/I bought a copy of his 2005 book, The Argumentative Indian, that we became aware of just how knowledgeable Sen was about India itself, its history and its ( Read more... )

MrsCommonSense, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 2 days agoWell they impose themselves on a lot of things - Leicester ifor example. Go and see it for yourself - would India be tolerant of us and our way of life, would we be able to take over swathes of their country and impose our traditions and lifestyle upon them? No ( Read more... )

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Who are the true patriots?
The irony in all of this, is that the two groups of people at loggerheads at the moment, don't just hate each other's guts, but they also seem to be the two groups of people who hate this country more than anybody else. They both want this country to be something which it isn't, and probably, never even wasn't. Frankly I ( Read more... )