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The Merchant and the Mahatma
The relationship between political movements and economic power has often been marked by suspicion, compromise, or uneasy dependence. Yet, the story of Mahatma Gandhi and the House of Tata...
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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
Mughals deleted from curriculum: history as political tool
The new education policy 2020 is being implemented gradually....
Mahabodhi Vihar, Gaya: a conspiracy of silence across the political spectrum
Despite several months-long agitation for the management of the shrine to be handed over to Buddhists, none from the opposition parties, be it the INC, RJD, SP or TMC have leant any voice to this demand
Unity not Hate: Commemorating the 168th anniversary of 1857 War of Independence
On the eve of the 168th anniversary of this heroic battle, let not the far right, Hindutva regime undermine the unique heritage of collective sacrifice
‘Phule’: A Revolution on Screen
No other couple in human history has shown such a spirit filled with revolutionary ambition for change. That too in a stagnant society like that of India.
2025 NCERT Textbooks: Mughals, Delhi Sultanate out; ‘sacred geography’, Maha Kumbh in
‘NCERT has dropped all portions on Mughals from Class 7 Books. Students will now get to read about how Rajputs fought against nobody and lost!’ So, sarcastically wrote an ‘X’ user, Joy even as one more cut and slash action of the Modi 3.0 government with Indian social science/ history texts came to light; for the NDA II government this is only the latest in a long series of ad hoc deletions
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