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Debunking the ‘Quit India Was Useless’ Myth
In his viral video, Prakhar Shrivastava, a pro-Hindutva commentator on history, calls the Quit India Movement a “super-duper flop.” Shrivastava’s claim is similar to the decades of the extremist Hindu organisations’ arguments downplaying 1942. Viceroy telegrams, Churchill’s private remarks, and Bose’s own broadcasts say otherwise.
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Busted: ‘Hindu’ Narratives of Desecration of Somnath, Buddhist & Jain Temples in India
Be it the Jagannath Mandir in Odisha, a Buddhist temple that was ‘taken over’ by Hinduism or the Jain idols destroyed during Adi Shankracharya’s countrywide yatra, these are no less historically significant than the stories around Somnath and other temples that may have been razed and raised by emperors who happen to be Muslim
Love Letters like no other. Letters from Savitribai to Jyotiba
Acclaimed actors Joy Sengupta and Tannishtha Chatterjee read out the...
The Taj Story & Resurgence of a Myth, the ideological engineering of a Brahmanical narrative of pseudo-history
Tejo Mahalay & Mina Bazar: P. N. Oak’s Pseudohistory demeaning both Muslims & Rajputs, is both Communal and Casteist; P. N. Oak’s legacy is not one of historical revision but of ideological engineering. His “Tejo Mahalay” myth and “Mina Bazar” fantasy are not just anti-Muslim—they are anti-Rajput and fundamentally Brahminical
Babri Mosque Demolition: When the Indian State succumbed to majoritarian propaganda
Reassertion of obliterated historical facts has always been a project of the powerful majority and this crucial piece, once again, exclusively in SabrangIndia, counters this propaganda
How Muslims treated non-Muslims in early Islam
Every discussion about the treatment of non-Muslims under Muslim rule tends to revolve around one subject — the Jizya, or the so-called “discriminatory” poll tax
What Indian Cities Owe to Islam
The cities created in the Deccan by Muslim leaders introduced the concept of public space to the Indian world.
Distortions in the syllabus of history books, an uncomfortable perspective
The normalisation of an everyday majoritarianism, Neo-Hindutva, has been facilitated by the silence of the Muslim liberal; an urgent challenge is being able to move out of the confines to reaffirm wider processes of secularization as a counter
The true story behind a ‘real’ photograph of Rani Lakshmibai
A seven-year-long forensic search that went from India to...
Emergency regime and the role of RSS
The RSS’ claim that they were the main force of ‘resistance’ during the 15-month period of the Emergency is not borne out by record
On the 50th anniversary of India’s formal ‘Emergency’, how the RSS betrayed the anti-emergency struggle
How the authoritarian proto-fascist RSS not only in a sense supported India’s formal Emergency (1975-77), filed mercy petitions for early release from prison but also –in sharp contrast—played no part in the fierce and challenging struggle for India’s freedom against colonial rule
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