Category: History
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Indo-Chinese socialism
Like most of the countries of the global south Vietnam was colonized by the bloodthirsty imperialist west (colonized by France). Vietnamese were subjected to brutal economic exploitation, high taxes, and a harsh legal system that favoured the colonizers. The workers and peasants kept on getting angrier because of the long working hours and bad working…
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The beginning of socialism Europe
The axis circus Hitler was running with the clowns, fascist Italy, fascist Hungary, fascist Romania and imperial Japan was destroyed by the Allied forces. Yes, before talking about that, let me explain A little bit. First let us see the background of Europe and about the words fascist and imperialist. Fascism is an ideology where…
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Chinese revolution
Have you ever heard of the word Maoist in Newspapers and wondered what it is? Have you seen the flag of a country with five golden stars and the rest of it red, China. Wondered what it is? To start with we must go to the Taiping rebellion, which started just after the publishing of…
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Animal farm book review
Introduction: Have you ever thought ill-treated animals could start a rebellion? Can you Imagine animals running a self-sustained nation, that too using the principle of communism. This is barely possible in the real world in fiction, George Orwell has generated a wonderful fable picturing these questions. So I will about this book animal farm. About…
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First modern revolution to counter capitalism
After when the father of communism, Karl Marx breathed his last breath in London only ten people attended the grave when his best friend Fredrich Engels said “His name and work will endure through the ages.”. That day the other 9 people who attended the mourning of the death of Marx thought whatever Engels said…
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Communism before Karl Marx
Prehistoric cave dwellers and hunter and gatherer societies used no money and there was no division of rich and poor, there was no private property (private property means property from which you can make income such land) and all the member of society was delivered social justice. Whatever they got was from the hard work…
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what is communism
As we see in the movies cavemen and prehistoric hunter and gatherer societies used no money and there was no division of rich and poor. What ever they got was from the hard work of every member of the society. Therefore, whatever they got from the hard work was equally redistributed. This is not only…
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social reformation in my eyes
hello readers welcome to iCurion today I am going to discuss the idea of social reformation in my eyes. social reformation is breaking the rules of your certain religion or society which are oppressing you or any other part of your society for example the Dravidian movement which was started by E.V. Ramaswamy Periyar or…
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Ambedkar
Most of us may have seen a sculpture very neatly dressed man raising his hand upwards, or mostly people know him as Babasaheb. This man is none other than B. R. Ambedkar, a revolutionary who shook India which was driven into endless amounts of meaningless customs. This revolutionary man was born to a Kabir follower…
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Thanthai Periyar
This book about Periyar, who eradicated caste in Tamil Nadu completely, and earned the name “Socrates of south east Asia”. This book was written by author Bala Jeyaraman who was the common author of Kamaraj.
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Kamaraj
This book is about the life of our honorable EX- chief Minister by author Bala Jeyaraman. This post contains of few points in the book.
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constitution of India
I have been reading Subhadra sen Gupta’s book called “The Constitution of India for children”. Below are some important parts of the book.
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Vellore fort
Hello everybody, today let’s learn about a magnificent and historiological site called the Vellore fort located in Vellore which is located in the northern part of Tamil Nādu. this fort was initially erected by king Chinna Bomma Reddy Nayak who was one of the sub-ordinates of sadhasiva Raya the Vijayanagar emperor. This place was built…
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Dindigul Fort
the fort was given a foundation at the 12th century itself by the late Pandya dynasty, but it was just a Shaiva temple for pilgrimage. after that at the period of Madurai Nayakas came to rule Tamil Nādu, so Muthu Krishnappa Nayakar this fort was continued by Muthuveerappa Nayakar and finally opened by Thirumalai Nayakar.…
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Alamparai Fort
Alamparai fort which was built by the Arcot nawab is spread over 15 acres, it was a major trading port of Nawabs, it traded saris, ghee and salt. It took just 4 years to build between 1736-1740 then after 10 years it was gifted to French commander Dupleix in 1750 for his support to Nizam…
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Ranjankudi fort
This fort was built in the 16th century by the Nayakas of Vijay Nagar at the place Ranjankudi in Tamil Nadu. This fort has small shrines of Hindu god Shiva and Ganapathy also Dravidian sculpture and other Dravidian influences could be seen in one of the check posts in the fort. proof of Dravidian kings…
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St. Davids Fort
St. Davids Fort at Cuddalore was built by Dutch with permission from Senji Nayak Krishnappa Nayakar in 1606. But he was put under pressure by Portuguese, so the fort was taken back. It came under the control of Marathas in 1677. During the Mughal siege, Shivaji’s son Rajaram Chhatrapati sold it to British for highest…
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St. George fort
Hello Readers, as you see this is my report about the museum at St. George fort. This fort in Chennai, built in 1639 AD, was also a very important Government head quarter. So, let’s start with coins. If you were Tamilian you might have heard of this colloquial term dhutu which means money. But the…
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History of rockets
Hi everyone, rockets are very traditional for us so you may ask ,”Rockets are invented now only, how is thinking the concept was old”. If you think like that your wrong so now you may ask, “If I am wrong when was it invented” so the answer is the rockets where invented at 1232th AD…
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The fort of Ananda Giri
Rulers and builders 800 years ago there was a sheep former. While he was walking in the hill he found a pot of treasure. Using that treasure he became a local king in there. The dynasty he found was named in the title of “Kon” .Because that he found the fort in the hill, he…
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First people of India
The first people on India are call Indu valley civilization also known as Harppan civilization . They could be from the north and have colonized out skirts of India and a little Pakistan, Himalayas and etc. Those Indus spread all over India. The civilization could have been started between 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. There…
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Dark ages
After few centuries of the Pax Romana. The dark ages begin where the evil churches begin. It’s said Jesus is the messenger of god and myth is for making people good but it became bad. To make you understand what I mean Here is a example: two people are fighting and some one comes in…
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Manora
Manora is an old fort which was built when British was ruling India. This column was built by king Sarafoji – II also erected by British government in the year of 1814. This fort was built to commemorate the victory of the British over Napoleon also because . it has a tower of eight stories…
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History of chess
Long long ago there was a Gupta prince.one day he went to a war and was dead. His brother thought how to represent this incident into board game. He called it as chaturongna a Sanskrit word meaning four divisions. he represented this in a 8*8 square board each of the coins had a rule about…
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Chandragupta
Long ago there was a king called Dhana Nanda . Dhana Nanda was a cruel king. He collected lot of taxes from his subjects. A brahmin priest named Chanakya went to the forest because Chanakya was disrespected by the king. Chanakya was led out the country. Chanakya became a monk. One afternoon the monk saw…