History and Historiography

All Dharma Dispatch essays on History and Historiography

Essays

History Distortion as a Weapon of the Left-Liberal Child Abuse of Three Generations: A Preface

History Distortion as a Weapon of the Left-Liberal Child Abuse of Three Generations: A Preface

A walk down memory lane to uncover the manner in which history was used as a tool to create three generations of deracinated Hindus

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Reviving DVG’s Splendid Vision of Writing Indian History Will Boost the Contemporary Indian Cultural Renaissance

Reviving DVG’s Splendid Vision of Writing Indian History Will Boost the Contemporary Indian Cultural Renaissance

Read all about the iconic D.V.Gundappa's grand and sublime vision of how Indian history should be written

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The Loss of the Aryavarata Consciousness: Or the Lessons that 10th Century Sanatana Bharata Teaches Us

The Loss of the Aryavarata Consciousness: Or the Lessons that 10th Century Sanatana Bharata Teaches Us

Ancient India vanished with the arrival of the barbaric Turkish Muslim hordes most notably led by the Islamic zealot and the proud destroyer of Hindu temples, Mahmud of Ghazni. He also wiped out whatever remained of the Arab Muslims in Sindh and wrote a darker, bloodier chapter than what Muhammad

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Sri Krishnadevaraya’s Empire of Fragrance and Food

Sri Krishnadevaraya’s Empire of Fragrance and Food

Exploring some facets of the opulence of Sri Krishnadevaraya's Empire. He had a separate ministry for fragrance!

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Acharya Jadunath Sarkar: The Brilliant Flower whose Fragrance Knows no Death

Acharya Jadunath Sarkar: The Brilliant Flower whose Fragrance Knows no Death

At the zenith of Bharatavarsha’s Modern Renaissance, scholarship of the highest degree was not only actively sought after but was passionately nurtured and passed on to successive generations in keeping with the true traditions of the Indian learning heritage. In this period, the genius of Sanatana civilization and culture

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Hindu Voices from the Malabar Graveyard: The Rani of Nilambur Records the Misery of the Malabar Hindu Women

Hindu Voices from the Malabar Graveyard: The Rani of Nilambur Records the Misery of the Malabar Hindu Women

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

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Hindu Voices from the Malabar Graveyard: War Song of the Moplahs and the Century-Long Massacres of Hindus

Hindu Voices from the Malabar Graveyard: War Song of the Moplahs and the Century-Long Massacres of Hindus

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

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Hindu Voices from the Graveyard: Unearthing the Tragic Stories of the Malabar Hindus

Hindu Voices from the Graveyard: Unearthing the Tragic Stories of the Malabar Hindus

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.

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Sri Lokanath Misra: A Forgotten Hero Who Fought Against  Nehruvian Secularism

Sri Lokanath Misra: A Forgotten Hero Who Fought Against Nehruvian Secularism

Recalling the heroic fight that Sri Lokanath Misra put up against secularism in the Constituent Assembly debates

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The Demand for Installing Pakistan’s Flag on the Mysore Palace: A Slice from Recent History

The Demand for Installing Pakistan’s Flag on the Mysore Palace: A Slice from Recent History

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

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