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Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva: Book Review

The substantial work is a studied reference from a multitude of sources in the Marathi language as well as a study on the surveillance by colonial powers

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Sangh Appropriation of Icons: Pranab Mukherjee in Nagpur

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“Is the Left ready to receive a new Ambedkarite wound?”

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Meet the Muslim princess Zaida, Spanish ancestor of the British royal family

Zaida, a Muslim princess living in 11th-century Seville, is...

“Ambedkar broke any prevailing consensus on nationhood”: Soumyabrata Choudhury

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Guilty men of the two-nation theory: A Hindutva project borrowed by Jinnah

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Unofficial Renaming of Akbar Road: Another Attempt at Meddling With the History

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Remembering the Mughals with Catherine B Asher

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Savarkar First Spoke of the Two-Nation Theory: Irfan Habib

Historian Irfan Habib talked to Tarique Anwar about the...

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