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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

India: Scans of Delhi Police and Intelligence Files on Activities of the RSS in 1947

Important archive of police intelligence files on activities of...

Pranab Da Makes a Visit but why Now?

Was one of the motives to undercut Rahul Gandhi...

Sangh Appropriation of Icons: Pranab Mukherjee in Nagpur

Ahead of Pranab Mukherjee’s impending speech at Nagpur, here’s...

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

In this discussion on Soumyabrata Choudhury’s Ambedkar and Other...

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

The writer in conversation with Souradeep RoyIn our latest...

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

FOREWORD After the recent attack on Aligarh Muslim University by...

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

A poster that read ‘Maharana Pratap Road’ was found...

Remembering the Mughals with Catherine B Asher

"One thing that I try to point out when...

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