Indian History

Essays

The Calculated Destruction of History Writing in India in Five Stages

The Calculated Destruction of History Writing in India in Five Stages

How history writing in India was systematically destroyed through institutional takeover

Crushing the Heroic Hindu Spirit: Glimpses of the Real History of India

Crushing the Heroic Hindu Spirit: Glimpses of the Real History of India

Today is the day we commemorate the sacred memory of one of the greatest Hindu heroes of all time: Pratap Singh I Sisodia popularly respected as Maharana Pratap. This unparalleled warrior and imposing Kshatriya lionheart was fittingly born in the formidable fort of Kumbalgarh. There was no room for weakness,

The Misguided Mystic’s Misadventures: R.C. Majumdar’s Assessment of Mohandas Gandhi’s Ideals and Methods

The Misguided Mystic’s Misadventures: R.C. Majumdar’s Assessment of Mohandas Gandhi’s Ideals and Methods

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 Years before R.C. Majumdar wrote his classic and authoritative History of the Freedom Movement in

A Plea for Annam Bahukurvita: Abundance of Food

A Plea for Annam Bahukurvita: Abundance of Food

Note: This essay is the final part of The Dharma Dispatch series documenting the methodical and systematic manner in which the British not only destroyed Indian food production but converted the country into a nation of beggars. This series has been excerpted from the meticulously researched book, “Annam Bahukurvita” authored

How the British Broke Our Charitable Institutions and Created a Nation of Beggars

How the British Broke Our Charitable Institutions and Created a Nation of Beggars

Note: This essay is the second part of The Dharma Dispatch series documenting the methodical and systematic manner in which the British not only destroyed Indian food production but converted the country into a nation of beggars. This series has been excerpted from the meticulously researched book, “Annam Bahukurvita” authored

It’s Nearly Five Hundred Years: Sri Ramachandra is Awaiting his Return to his Own Home

It’s Nearly Five Hundred Years: Sri Ramachandra is Awaiting his Return to his Own Home

IF there’s one person who has his finger on the pulse of Hindu pusillanimity, inertia and self-imposed helplessness with deadly accuracy, it is Sri Sri Asaduddin Owaisi. Here’s what he said in the wake of the Supreme Court’s latest pronouncement on the Ayodhya case. Asaduddin Owaisi,

Podcast: Congratulations to Yogi Adityanath for restoring the Sanctity of Prayagraj

Podcast: Congratulations to Yogi Adityanath for restoring the Sanctity of Prayagraj

Amid the ongoing, spirited protest by the Hindu community against the SC Verdict on Sabarimala, is some good news of sorts. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced the much-awaited and much-needed restoration of the original name of Allahabad: Prayagraj. To be sure, it is not merely

The Apocalyptic Battle of Talikota is an Eternal Warning

The Apocalyptic Battle of Talikota is an Eternal Warning

The terminal Battle of Talikota permanently extinguished the glorious Hindu Empire of Vijayanagara. But the eternal lessons it left behind endures like a civilisational scar that cannot be erased.

The Hindu Code of War Ethics and Jihad

The Hindu Code of War Ethics and Jihad

A comparative analysis of the Hindu code of war ethics and the Islamic jihad

What Sitaram ji Said: An Introduction

What Sitaram ji Said: An Introduction

Without doubt, Ram Swarup, Sitaram Goel and Arun Shourie (before he irreversibly slid down the oily wall of slathered ambition and reached his current position) occupy places of deserved eminence in the pantheon of what is crudely known as Hindu revivalism after India attained freedom from about a thousand years