This obscure historical vignette being the CNN headline on July 4th, right after Modi visit makes me 🧐 🧐

Are non-Indians in the US seeing this headline or am I seeing a personalized top story? 

I consider myself well-read on Indian history and this was obscure even for me.

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My theory: consciously political attempt to violate the very parochial-mythologized nationalist/MAGA account of the revolutionary war and install a more globalized account. Not that I object.

(This is not the only connection… US/India history of the 1700s is thoroughly entangled via British colonialism)

For eg. Cornwallis became governor general of India after the Siege of Yorktown (by way of Ireland stint)

Algorithmic pandering based on tracking cookies is like the opposite of news though. A few days ago I was wonder why I wasn’t seeing anything about France. I guess I have to change my name to Pierre and occassionally check out Le Monde to be served French news by CNN

For eg. Cornwallis became governor general of India after the Siege of Yorktown (by way of Ireland stint) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cornwallis,_1st_Marquess_Cornwallis