Tag: Partition 1947

Rein’state’ed – The case of the ‘exchanged’ women at Partition

The paradigm of the “recovery” and “restoration” of women was a form of biological citizenship, as it entailed not only determining the religion (at birth) of a woman, almost as if it were a biological characteristic, but also her biological status as a woman whose body had been violated, impregnated, or otherwise defiled by union with a male of another religious community

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...

Left is right

Given Hindutva’s fascist threat, a distinction must be made...

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