Tag: Partition 1947

NCERT’s ‘Partition Horrors’: A brazen exercise in white-washing the ‘crimes’ of the Hindu Mahasabha & RSS

In this detailed essay, exposing the five falsehoods behind the NCERT’s recent module on Partition, the author, a historian and writer in fact exposes the axis of the far right, Hindu and Muslim, Hindu Mahasabha, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Jinnah, and the collusion with the British that got India Partitioned

How textbooks teach prejudice

First Published on: October 1, 1999Forget RSS-run Shishu Mandirs...

Clash Between Two Notions of Purity: India’s Partition

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

Indian Nationhood after Weathering Partition

  Composite and Diverse: The first presidential address at the...

The road not taken

  The real damage to the struggle for secularism in...

Mother Courage

If you were a Christian and did not roam...

Muslims in disguise

Contrary to popular perception, there are still thousands of ...

Gandhi or Godse?

Even as the ‘Brotherhood in Saffron’ pretends to appropriate...

The murderer as martyr

  The glorification of Gandhiji’s murderers  is  consistent with the...

Self-confessed killer on NCERT committee

An RSS pracharak, who had shot dead a Muslim...

A historian sans blinkers

The late scholar and historian, Dr. Bishambhar Nath Pande’s...

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