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51st Anniversary of Emergency in India: While the RSS supported the Emergency, it now ruthlessly presides over an ‘undeclared Emergency’
The RSS shakha, well documented for its recounting of a manipulated history has, over past decades laid claims to being part of the wider democratic struggle against the Emergency; archival documents from independent sources, civil servants and writers, as also its own archive clearly document otherwise.
New ICSSR chief’s novel ideas: Caste because of invasions, Modi worst victim of intolerance
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Historians too should share the blame for the rise of religious radicalism: Devdutt Pattanaik
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Gandhi’s Leadership of Champaran Struggle, A Study in Model Leadership
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Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and the Role of Dalit Women in Emancipation
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“All humanists, rationalists and fighters for social and economic justice must unite to fight the usurpers of our democracy and our history”
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