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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’s Post Truth Era in ICHR’s Book on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Once a prime national centre of historical research, the...

I am an Indian Muslim (Poem)

I am an Indian Muslim. I’ve been living in this...

Is Religious Terrorism a product of Western Modernity?

In the 21st century there is visibly an increase...

Why was Assam’s Nellie massacre of 1983 not prevented, despite intimations of violence?

A long-buried report submitted to the state government in...

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इतिहास की नज़र में तथ्य सर्वाधिक पवित्र होते हैं।...

“Communalisation” of Indian history around Padmavati, a fictitious character, has colonial roots: Irfan Habib

Strongly intervening in the “violent controversy" raging around the...

Faiz Ahmad Faiz and the de-Islamisation of a Muslim revolutionary

Faiz has often been seen as a Communist poet...

For too long, the West has expected Muslims to defend their faith from labels of violence

Perhaps it’s time that we appreciate the exasperation that...

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