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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

Clash Between Two Notions of Purity: India’s Partition

Some Summations from India’s Partition StoryMy engagement with partition...

No, Bob Dylan isn’t the first lyricist to win the Nobel

There’s been a great deal of excitement over Bob...

What Ambedkar’s Anti-caste Struggle shared with the US Civil Rights Movement

 On this day 60 years ago, Dr BR Ambedkar,...

A Muslim Kumbhakarna in Delhi’s Ramleela

Delhi’s Syncretism wins over Buldanha’s Sectarianism...for nowMuslim boy Mujibur...

एम एफ़ हुसेन की रामलीला

जब एक कमज़ोर सरकार कट्टरपंथियों के आगे घुटने टेक...

Rich & Working Class: When the Bombay Cinema Hall Enthralled them All

Popular cinema and public culture in Bombay Popular cinema in...

1971 के हीरो बाबू जगजीवन राम को विजया दशमी पर नमन

(बाबू जगजीवन राम के मार्गदर्शन में भारतीय सेना ने...

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When Conservation Becomes Coercion: The silent violence faced by the Tharus of Kheri

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In twin complaints to the Election Commission, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) alleges Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and AIMIM candidate Tausif Alam of crossing constitutional red lines — one by communalising the campaign with hate-laden rhetoric, the other by threatening brutal violence against a rival, exposing the deep decay of democratic discourse in the Bihar elections