The Unmaking of India: How the British Impoverished the World’s Richest Country  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIzQxNZfGM4 Over 190 years of colonial rule, the British collapsed India's institutions and economy, and destroyed the equivalent of $45 TRILLION. This is the shocking story of how the British -- through the East India Company first, then the Crown -- actually accomplished such a horrible feat. 

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, first published in India as An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, is a work of non-fiction by Shashi Tharoor,  https://ia800407.us.archive.org/26/items/inglorious-empire/Inglorious%20Empire.pdf

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03068374.2018.1487685 

 India Through Lens of Marginalised https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws6Dakdv2tY Jun 25, 2025  
Audrey Truschke discusses her book on 5000 years of South Asian history, starting with the Indus Valley Civilization around 2600 BCE. She explains the choice of 5000 years, including a brief account of early human migration 120,000 years ago. Truschke emphasizes the importance of diverse voices, particularly women and oppressed castes, in her narrative. She critiques political appropriations of the Indus civilization and hig

https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/audrey-truschke-on-india-5000-years-of-history-on-the-subcontinent hlights the book's non-nationalist approach, covering historical connections, cultural exports, and the evolution of Hindu nationalism. I use the term “India” in its older geographical sense of the subcontinent, which includes parts of the modern nations of Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and Bangladesh. This practice may be uncomfortable for some readers who are accustomed to “India” meaning the modern nation, which covers only some of the Indian subcontinent, but I can live with that discomfort. In fact, challenging reader assumptions is important to shake everybody out of our collective tendency to write the present onto the past.

Audrey Truschke — Hindutva History and Other Modern Problems with the Indian Past https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCyL2wb5B3I

I survey in the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries. Millennia earlier, I elevate the voices of Buddhist women (rather than men) in capturing the early history of Buddhism on the subcontinent. I cover some highlights of civil rights movements in twentieth-century India led by Shudras and Dalits, which are far too often omitted in overview histories.

https://www.audreytruschke.com/

 Debunking Audrey Truschke's Malicious Narrative of Hinduism - Presentation & Analysis  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxUSNMfdLlk  Sangam Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk-L4eOLl98   When the 19th century began, no one was sure of who or what a Hindu was. But by the end of the 20th century, it seemed like the majority of India's population was Hindu since the beginning of time. This is the story of what happened in between...

India Ink https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaInkHistory