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Nikhil Sheth - History and Culture

@nikhilhistoryculture

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14,211subscribers

+94 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001260861424
TypeChannel
Username@nikhilhistoryculture
Created3 March 2020 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset)
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live25 September 2026
Measurements held31
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 25 September 2026
On Telegramt.me/nikhilhistoryculture

Topic

Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 53% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.

Growth

14,11614,21114,163.56 August 2026 — 14,117 subscribers6 August 2026 — 14,117 subscribers7 August 2026 — 14,116 subscribers8 August 2026 — 14,119 subscribers9 August 2026 — 14,124 subscribers10 August 2026 — 14,118 subscribers11 August 2026 — 14,116 subscribers12 August 2026 — 14,118 subscribers14 August 2026 — 14,122 subscribers15 August 2026 — 14,127 subscribers16 August 2026 — 14,126 subscribers18 August 2026 — 14,134 subscribers18 August 2026 — 14,135 subscribers19 August 2026 — 14,138 subscribers20 August 2026 — 14,149 subscribers22 August 2026 — 14,153 subscribers23 August 2026 — 14,152 subscribers25 August 2026 — 14,160 subscribers27 August 2026 — 14,166 subscribers28 August 2026 — 14,163 subscribers31 August 2026 — 14,176 subscribers1 September 2026 — 14,178 subscribers2 September 2026 — 14,172 subscribers3 September 2026 — 14,178 subscribers5 September 2026 — 14,176 subscribers9 September 2026 — 14,174 subscribers11 September 2026 — 14,173 subscribers13 September 2026 — 14,162 subscribers15 September 2026 — 14,166 subscribers17 September 2026 — 14,168 subscribers25 September 2026 — 14,211 subscribers6 August 202625 September 2026
31 measurements spanning 49 days, net +94. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 14,102–14,225 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 31
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
25 Sept 2026, 01:5714,211+43
17 Sept 2026, 07:3614,168+2
15 Sept 2026, 08:5614,166+4
13 Sept 2026, 16:5914,162-11
11 Sept 2026, 19:5914,173-1
9 Sept 2026, 06:0014,174-2
5 Sept 2026, 19:4014,176-2
3 Sept 2026, 18:5514,178+6
2 Sept 2026, 10:2414,172-6
1 Sept 2026, 08:4914,178+2
31 Aug 2026, 06:0414,176+13
28 Aug 2026, 01:4414,163-3
27 Aug 2026, 02:2814,166+6
25 Aug 2026, 03:3814,160+8
23 Aug 2026, 23:1614,152-1
22 Aug 2026, 09:1214,153+4
20 Aug 2026, 23:5414,149+11
19 Aug 2026, 22:5314,138+3
18 Aug 2026, 22:5714,135+1
18 Aug 2026, 00:0614,134first reading

Engagement

58 posts held, back to 20 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 51 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
14.8%
avg views ÷ 14,211 subscribers
Avg views / post
2,110
7 posts measured
Reaction rate
1.86%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
7
of 58 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 5 of 7 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 2 September 2026
Posts held58 (20 July 2026 – 2 September 2026)
Views total14,740
Reactions total198
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken2 Sept 2026, 19:05 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

What this channel posts

Video runtime
2m 15s
Average length
45s

Measured directly from 3 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.

Reaction mix

2,053 reactions across 52 posts, in 11 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 63.0% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
❤1,29363.0%
👍1647.99%
😢1436.97%
😱944.58%
💯904.38%
🤔874.24%
👏612.97%
🤯572.78%
🔥351.70%
👌221.07%
🎉70.341%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 54 of the 58 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 2,053 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 58 most recent posts we hold, published 20 July 2026 to 2 September 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

2 Sept 2026, 03:00 UTC≈1,800 views110 reactionsread 2 September 2026

For students too, I always say this: finish the bulk of your day’s work by lunchtime. If you can get 5-6 hours of serious, productive study done before 1 PM, you have essentially won the day. The rest of the day is yours. And this matters because the afternoon and evening are unpredictable. Your energy may drop, your mood may change, somebody may need you, an emergency may come up, or something may simply go wrong. …

❤98👍10😱2

2 Sept 2026, 03:00 UTC≈1,760 views12 reactionsread 2 September 2026
Photo

This is the spirit that South India brings to North India. https://www.thehindu.com/food/features/this-tamil-restaurant-in-chandigarh-refuses-to-sweeten-its-sambar/article71364943.ece

❤12

1 Sept 2026, 14:41 UTC≈2,170 views20 reactionsread 2 September 2026

Prof. Vinay Lal is our first guest from the American academic world, and also one of the most prominent public intellectuals among contemporary historians. If you like the podcast, which I am sure you will, please Like and Hype (on Youtube, not here). It really helps the podcast reach more people. Prof. Lal has also asked me to share your responses, queries and questions with him. So if you have any question or doub…

❤17👍3

1 Sept 2026, 14:11 UTC≈2,790 views5 reactionsread 2 September 2026

Prof. Vinay Lal (UCLA) joins me for Episode 8 of the Akhyan Diaries podcast. I had been watching his lectures on YouTube, especially on Modern Indian history, for many years. He has been one of those influential teachers at UCLA whose lectures taught me many fascinating aspects of history. In this episode, we discuss some of the deeper questions raised by the Holocaust. We go beyond statistics and the conventional n…

❤5

1 Sept 2026, 08:30 UTC≈1,490 viewsread 2 September 2026
Forwarded from @nikhilhistoryoptional

Paper 2 Live Discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6rU0ffm8yM

29 Aug 2026, 18:05 UTC≈2,130 views51 reactionsread 2 September 2026
Forwarded from @nikhilhistoryoptional

Best of luck for the optional paper. May all gods bless you at the same time. Sabka ashirvad/barkat/grace/pushti aapko ikattha mile. Shubham bhavatu.

❤51

28 Aug 2026, 16:56 UTC≈5,540 views31 reactionsread 2 September 2026

Why miss a good opportunity to speak on history/mythology debate when its a comedian Kunal Kamra who created it for you? https://youtu.be/lJGmDXAI61g?si=6Gkgjnnb6t7TldBR

❤22🤔4🔥3👌1💯1

28 Aug 2026, 15:53 UTC≈4,180 views98 reactionsread 2 September 2026
Photo

Photo, posted without a caption

❤71💯14👍6🎉2🤯2😢2👌1

27 Aug 2026, 18:27 UTC≈2,820 views60 reactionsread 2 September 2026
Forwarded from @nikhilhistoryoptional

Let me tell you something very interesting. John Keay is a student of the great historians AJP Taylor. When he was a student of history at Oxford in 1960s, one of his teachers was AJP Taylor. We talked about AJP Taylor's personality, teaching style, lecturing style, historical debates today. Last month I had a discussion with Prof Vinay Lal, and he was a student of venerable Bernard Cohn. And just the last week's gu…

❤45🔥10👌2😱2🤯1

27 Aug 2026, 11:20 UTC≈4,250 views40 reactionsread 2 September 2026

Just recorded a podcast with John Keay. I don't know how many of you know his history writing but for me he has been an absolutely impressive writer. It was the 10th episode of Akhyan Diaries. And we discussed a lot many interesting things. So, the last three episodes were recorded in online mode, and with scholars of History in the west. Ep 8. Prof Vinay Lal on History of Holocaust. Ep 9. Prof Richard Eaton on co…

❤36🎉2👏2

26 Aug 2026, 11:22 UTC≈2,230 views6 reactionsread 2 September 2026
Forwarded from @levelupias

UPSC Mains 2026 GS IV (Ethics) Paper Analysis & Discussion by Atul Garg Sir is starting shortly. 📅 Today 🕔 5:00 PM 🔗 Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83695563952?pwd=zFfaIBjTyhVaWp4ITZnI2kVZcM7HPJ.1 Meeting ID: 836 9556 3952 Passcode: 808908

❤6

Showing the 12 most recent of 58 posts we hold for @nikhilhistoryculture. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Posts edited after publishing

@nikhilhistoryculture edited 1 post after it first published — the same permalink now carries different wording than the one this register originally read, caught because our own crawl held a copy of the earlier text.

An edit is not deception. Typo fixes, price updates and corrections look exactly like this too — this register can tell you the wording changed and when, not why. How this is measured.

First edit seen
24 August 2026
Most recent edit
24 August 2026

Polls

The 2 polls we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered them when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.

21 Aug 2026, 16:51 UTCAnonymous Poll978 voters

Which Essay would you choose to write?

  1. Q5. Nature is the symbol of the spirit.9%
  2. Q6. A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.52%
  3. Q7. Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.14%
  4. Q8. A good leader is one who follows the followers.25%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

21 Aug 2026, 16:50 UTCAnonymous Poll998 voters

Which Essay would you chose to write?

  1. Q1. Oxymorons reflect the ironies of life.6%
  2. Q2. A grateful mind is very beautiful.28%
  3. Q3. A thorn is a changed bud.16%
  4. Q4. When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.50%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none. The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.

The shares need not add up to 100. Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.

Read from the 58 most recent posts we hold, published 20 July 2026 to 2 September 2026. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.

Forward network

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Mentions

Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

Named by

Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

Level Up IAS (Official Channel)
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@Upsc_Prelims_Environment_Mcqs · 43,098
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Upsc Optional topper notes
@Optional_toppers_notes · 43,560
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CSAT PYQs Anmol vachan
@upsc_CSAT_PYQ · 34,332
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@upsc_government_scheme_mcq · 41,183
Telegram ranks this channel #47 of 86 here — alongside 85 others — read 29 August 2026
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@upsc_ir_mcq · 40,463
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@Geography_mapping_MCQ · 45,592
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@upsc_sci_tech_mcq · 40,724
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@Upsc_prelims_Pyq_Mcq · 27,845
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This channel appears in 40 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 24 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 25 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Nikhil Sheth - History and Culture” (@nikhilhistoryculture), 14,211 subscribers as measured 25 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/nikhilhistoryculture.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.