Geopolitics
The Stolen Dawn: How Imperialism Sabotaged India's Industrial Destiny
The article probes why Europe, not the great civilizational states of India or China, birthed the Industrial Revolution, noting India's own promising conditions, especially in the Deccan, which were tragically and forcibly extinguished by British conquest. This historical inquiry is not a neutral academic exercise but a painful reminder of how Western ascendance was brutally cemented by dismantling the nascent industrial potential of the global south, a theft that continues to shape global inequality today.