The tragedy of India’s partition – Was the bloody path to independence really necessary?

After watching the YouTube video clip “Partition The Day India burned” I was negatively surprised how bloody the partition of India really was. Since the end of World War I…

Learn from history? Not really…

Partition in India was needed. Muslims and Hindus had serious religious problems, neither wanted to ‘share’ their land. Religious rebellions had already happened, everybody feared reprisals from the opposing party.

The catchy title of your post immediately made me curious: I was really interested in “The Dark Side of Winston Churchill”. Maybe more than anyone else, Churchill is mostly seen as one of the bright figures of English history…wise, diplomatic yet decided. One only has to reconsider the several instances in our CS IV course alone where we have…

I think your post is really interesting, you give a lot of information and mention many traces of the British Empire that are still visible in Canada today. What I liked most was your explanation of how the Canadian flag is composed; I was rather surprised by the fact that it was introduced only in 1960…I really would have thought that it was more…