History and Historiography

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Lessons in Nation-Building from the Life of Sir M. Visvesvaraya

Lessons in Nation-Building from the Life of Sir M. Visvesvaraya

Some anecdotes and inspirational accounts from the life of Bharata Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya in dedication towards nation-building.

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Revelations at Rakhigarhi: New Genetic Data Indicates India was an Independent Center of Civilization from Ancient Times

Revelations at Rakhigarhi: New Genetic Data Indicates India was an Independent Center of Civilization from Ancient Times

Recent genetic finds in India at Rakhigarhi in Haryana, called the “Rakhigarhi Project”, confirm the continuity of populations in India – from early agriculture to the urban Harappan civilization of 4500 years ago to later India. It shows that the Indus Valley or Harappan Civilization is the largest source of ancestry

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How Kohat was Entirely Cleansed of its Hindu Population: The Tragic Finale

How Kohat was Entirely Cleansed of its Hindu Population: The Tragic Finale

In this Series: The Forgotten Kohat Genocide of Hindus: An Introductory History The Delhi and Gulbarga Massacre of Hindus: Precursors to the Forgotten Kohat Hindu Genocide The earliest recorded history of Kohat traces its founder to a Buddhist king named Raja Kohat. Today, the only surviving traces of Kohat’s

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The Delhi and Gulbarga Massacre of Hindus: Precursors to the Forgotten Kohat Hindu Genocide

The Delhi and Gulbarga Massacre of Hindus: Precursors to the Forgotten Kohat Hindu Genocide

Swami Shraddhananda's Shuddhi and Sanghatan movements to unite and organize the Hindu society alarmed the Islamic Ulema which launched a spate of violent attacks against Hindus across India.

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The Forgotten Kohat Genocide of Hindus: An Introductory History

The Forgotten Kohat Genocide of Hindus: An Introductory History

At the outset, let’s look at two quotes. Quote 1 “On the whole, violence is sanctified in Islam if it is carried out against infidels or heretics ‘in the path of Allah.’ On the philosophic religious level, there is no room for nonbelievers in the Islamic system, even if

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Sri Krishnadevaraya Reduced to a Footnote: It’s Time to Bury Such Politics of History

Sri Krishnadevaraya Reduced to a Footnote: It’s Time to Bury Such Politics of History

An unfortunate outcome of the contemporary fashion of thinking and the resultant public discourse is the fact that with each successive decade since Independence, the Indian (more importantly, Hindu) society has been eroded of its capacity of our society to produce heroes. In a line, this thinking is shaped by

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Mohandas Gandhi Orders the Indian National Congress to Succumb to Moplah Jihadis in the Infamous Resolution No. 3

Mohandas Gandhi Orders the Indian National Congress to Succumb to Moplah Jihadis in the Infamous Resolution No. 3

The barbaric Jihad against Hindus in the Malabar region can by no stretch of imagination be characterized as the “Moplah Rebellion.” Even the stray incidents of arson, capture of British officials, siege of police stations, etc do not qualify this appalling brutality to be termed a mere “rebellion.” The context

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How Mohandas Gandhi’s Pious Dictatorship Culminated in the Genocide of Hindus in Malabar: The Hidden Details

How Mohandas Gandhi’s Pious Dictatorship Culminated in the Genocide of Hindus in Malabar: The Hidden Details

On 24 December 1921, the pre-independence Indian National Congress met at Ahmedabad for a discussion on the Congress Subjects Committee and passed five or six resolutions. This was truly a watershed moment both in the history of the INC and that of Bharatavarsha. It officially appointed Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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The Lal Ishtahar and the Bloodbath of Hindus in Bengal

The Lal Ishtahar and the Bloodbath of Hindus in Bengal

Among other unspeakable crimes he committed against India, the deplorable “Lord” Curzon is notable for three measured by the impact and scale of destruction: The infamous Partition of Bengal in 1905, his “education policy” which singularly wiped out Sanskrit education that had existed unbroken for hundreds of years, and his

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Muhammed Ali Jinnah: R.C. Majumdar Puts them in Perspective

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Muhammed Ali Jinnah: R.C. Majumdar Puts them in Perspective

In this Series Part 1: UNMASKING THE MAHATMAHOOD OF GANDHI: R.C. MAJUMDAR’S FRANK ASSESSMENT OF MOHANDAS GANDHI Part 2: INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE WAS SECONDARY TO MOHANDAS GANDHI: R.C. MAJUMDAR UNMASKS GANDHI Part 3: THE MISGUIDED MYSTIC’S MISADVENTURES: R.C. MAJUMDAR’S ASSESSMENT OF MOHANDAS GANDHI’S

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