The Long Siege

<table style=border: 1px solid rgba(0 0 0 1)><tbody><tr><td data-row=1>The Long Siege: 500 Years of India's Struggle for Technopolitical Freedom offers a strategic</td><td data-row=1> evaluation of the technopolitical deficiencies that Bharat faced from 1500 CE onward. It</td><td data-row=1> explores how by the 1850s the Bharatiya intelligentsia had begun to recognise the complex</td><td data-row=1> colonial entanglements into which the subcontinent had been drawn and how their</td><td data-row=1> sustained struggle over the following century gradually turned the tide.</td><td data-row=1> The book examines the systematic suppression of Bharatiya initiatives in land and maritime</td><td data-row=1> exploration the strategic inability to counter the colonial powers' weaponisation of science</td><td data-row=1> and technology and the convergence of European financial and naval superiority in their</td><td data-row=1> global campaigns. While this incapacity is largely attributed to Bharat's declining</td><td data-row=1> socioeconomic prosperity at the time the incoming colonisers capitalised on these</td><td data-row=1> conditions using them to justify their scientific racism and to stifle the subcontinent's</td><td data-row=1> scientific and technological development in every conceivable way.</td><td data-row=1> Through stories of both known and forgotten ideologues of the swadeshi and revolutionary</td><td data-row=1> freedom movements the book highlights how these figures waged a long often overlooked</td><td data-row=1> battle for India's independence on technopolitical frontiers over five centuries.</td><td data-row=1> Beginning with the Battle of Diu in 1509 the narrative traces key milestones and heroic</td><td data-row=1> figures from Bharat's resilient and often battle-hardened history-many of whose global</td><td data-row=1> contributions remain under-recognised. It culminates in the formation of India's atomic</td><td data-row=1> program in 1945 but it also reminds readers that the struggle for true technopolitical</td><td data-row=1> sovereignty is far from over.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>