Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s vision of and eulogy to the Indian Civil Services in his inspirational speech on April 21, 1947 to the first batch of the Indian Administrative Services needs repetition if only to underscore how farsighted he was: Your predecessors were brought up in the traditions in which
Remembering R.C. Majumdar, one of India's greatest gifts to the world of historical scholarship
Part 1: Hindu Voices from the Graveyard: Unearthing the Tragic Stories of the Malabar Hindus Part 2: Hindu Voices from the Malabar Graveyard: War Song of the Moplahs and the Century-Long Massacres of Hindus Geography is perhaps the greatest, mute chronicler of history. Geography doesn’t lie, doesn’t
Read Part 1: Hindu Voices from the Graveyard: Unearthing the Tragic Stories of the Malabar Hindus If we thought that the ghastly genocide of the hapless Hindus of Malabar in 1921 at the hands of the Moplah Muslims was a sudden or sporadic occurrence due to the sustained, inflammatory preaching
In less than two years, the appalling genocide of the Malabar Hindus will complete a full tragic century. It was on 20 August 1921 that a plague-like pogrom descended upon the unprepared and blissfully-unaware Hindus of Malabar at the hands of people they had trusted: the Moplah Muslims.
When we reminisce about the Indian freedom movement, the year 1858 is a turning point of sorts. That was the year when the control of India passed from the East India Company to the British Crown. From 1858 onwards, for roughly 50 years, a gradual, steady and in many cases,
Recalling the heroic fight that Sri Lokanath Misra put up against secularism in the Constituent Assembly debates
Let’s examine two quotes by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: 1. Hindi is that language which both Hindus and Muslims speak and is written in Nagri and Persian script. This Hindi is not completely Sanskritised, nor is it loaded with Persian vocabulary… [Address to the eighth Hindi Sahitya Sammelan in Indore
One year is less than the proverbial drop in the ocean of eternity. But for what it’s worth, The Dharma Dispatch began exactly a year ago on this day by publishing a largely forgotten episode of recent history: the Bangalore Ganapati Clashes of 1928. Looking back at its really
Circa 1946. The entire undivided Bharatavarsha was rife with frenzied meetings and mobs and sporadic violence on the part of Muslims fanned by the poisonous fumes of Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s demand for Pakistan because Muslims felt threatened by Hindus. From Lahore to Lucknow, Karachi to Calcutta, it was the