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A new rule in JNU to penalise students for protesting inside campus brings to attention the role that student movements have played in shaping local and national politics in India. They have also launched the careers of some of the leading politicians in India former vice-president Venkaiah Naidu, former finance minister Arun Jaitley, and Union minister Nitin Gadkari, among others.
Fought in 1741, the Battle of Colachel was of huge significance in the history of India and Asia. This was the first time that a European power had been decimated in Asia. It put an end to Dutch plans of colonial expansion in India.
Edward Augustus Freeman mentioned in his “Lectures to American Audiences, lecture II: The Practical Bearings of General European History” that “History is past politics and politics are present history.” History has been the intellectual arsenal.