Journalist; Editor @perfectvoice_in; ex- @the_hindu.Interests:Jadunath Sarkar & 18th C India;1618-48, 1756-63, 1789 & Napoleonic era, 1914-45.
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#Europe's mounting restiveness reveals strains in the continent’s postwar social settlement. From Bismarck’welfare state to 'Les Trente Glorieuses' of economic expansion between 1945 and 1975, I trace an arc to understand roots of the current unrest.
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The postwar European generation had the intellectual courage to construct institutions capable of answering to realities of their era. Europe today needs to recover that courage if it is to avoid a Götterdämmerung. My latest. #Europe
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Fought 280 years ago as a sideshow to the War of the Austrian Succession, the French victory at Adyar (1746) rudely shook the old Indian military order as Dupleix and Paradis gave an object lesson the British would soon master. A 🧵
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Yet their expedition in the 17th C. had failed almost as conspicuously as Clive’s campaign would succeed in the eighteenth.
