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Henry VI

Essays

DVG's Jack Cade: The Soothsaying Play that Predicted Congress Anarchy

DVG's Jack Cade: The Soothsaying Play that Predicted Congress Anarchy

DVG's Kannada play, Jack Cade was one of the earliest fictional portrayals of a newly-independent India in which the political class headed by the Congress Party was pushing India towards brazen demagoguery and anarchy.

By Sandeep Balakrishna
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The Vijayanagara Empire or the Hindu Resistance to Islamic Expansion in South India: What Europe was Doing

The Vijayanagara Empire or the Hindu Resistance to Islamic Expansion in South India: What Europe was Doing

The introductory episode of a new series examining the pivotal role of the Vijayanagara Empire as a bulwark against Islamic expansions in South India.

By Sandeep Balakrishna
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