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“Development is, ultimately, the progress of human freedom and capability to lead the kind of lives that people have reason to value.”
― An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions
― An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions
“Doomed is a nation that puts a price tag on information and label it "education”
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“We literally paid for our own oppression.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present.”
― The Great Indian Novel
― The Great Indian Novel
“(Indeed there were outstanding examples of good governance in India at the time, notably the Travancore kingdom, which in 1819 became the first government in the world to decree universal, compulsory and free primary education for both boys and girls.) The British charges against the rulers they”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
Kanchi’s 2025 Year in Books
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