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UP’s syncretic warrior cults facing Hindutva challenge
Be it the attack on the Gogamedi shrine in the Hanumangarh district of northern Rajasthan or the Neja Mela in the Sambhal district of western Uttar Pradesh, Hindutva’s systemic attack on India’s syncretic traditions, past and present, reveals its rigid and Brahmanical ideological orientation: imposition of a strictly hierarchical, exclusionary and structured notion of faith and practice
Idea Exchange: Romila Thapar Answers Gopal Guru on Dharma and the Past
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The strange history of secularism twists debate about British Muslim attitudes
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Targeted by Bajrang Dal goons in Nagpur, Fearless Kanhaiya Kumar unhurt, unfazed
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Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Scathing Attacks on Hindutva and Hindu Rashtra
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The battle is between Hindustan and Sanghistan: Kanhaiya Kumar
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