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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
Why Islamism is winning
Courtesy: MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images Islamism is winning out because it...
Paper I: Misinterpreted and misjudged
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The Babri Masjid: Its inscriptions and date of construction ...
Paper II: Historical evidence versus hysterical invention
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The judgement and the lore of RamjanmabhoomiCourtesy: Delhi Press...
Paper III: Digging out the proof
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The Archaeological Survey of India’s report on excavations ...
Paper IV: Puppets on a string
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The conduct of the Archaeological Survey of India before,...
A Gandhian with a difference
Iqbal Ahmad Ansari, 1935 – 2009Professor Iqbal Ahmad Ansari,...
‘Very soon you may have the Indian Taliban’
Pakistani author Ahmed Rashid urges dialogue between India and...
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