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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

Indian Civilization Unlikely to have been Characterised by One Religion: Romila Thapar

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दलित महिला स्वर भारतीय स्त्रीवाद को परिभाषित करेः विमल थोराट

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“बुद्धा इन ए ट्राफिक जाम” सियासी परदे में किसका एजेंडा…!

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A School of Law Deploys Police on Peacefully Protesting Students: NLU Assam

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The Sanatan Dharma Recipe for Historical Writing and Research

Image Credit: Times of India/Sandeep Adhwaryu In this interview, renowned...

Is black really “The Islamic Colour for Women”?

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Constitutional Cautions: Vice President and President Speak

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The Slow Death of the Old India

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Modi Trips as Twitter Trolls his Comparison of Kerala with Somalia

Another poll time blunder by the globe-trotting PMIt should...

The March to Delhi that Shook the British Empire, 159 Years Ago

One hundred and Fifty Nine Years ago, the 62...

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