Mysore Princely State

Essays

Lessons from D.V. Gundappa’s 1959 Letter to B.D. Jatti and G.B. Pant

Lessons from D.V. Gundappa’s 1959 Letter to B.D. Jatti and G.B. Pant

In January 1959, DVG wrote two acerbic letters to the then Mysore Chief Minister B.D. Jatti and sent its copies to the Home Minister, G.B. Pant. It triggered a chain of bureaucratic correspondence between Delhi and Bangalore. The episode offers brilliant and eye-opening insights into recent history.

A Slice of Srimad Ramayana in Sri Rallapalli Anantakrishna Sarma’s Life

A Slice of Srimad Ramayana in Sri Rallapalli Anantakrishna Sarma’s Life

A deeply moving and enriching incident in the student days of the towering scholar and musician, Sri Rallapalli Anantakrishna Sarma

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

The Bangalore Ganapati Clashes of 1928

The Bangalore Ganapati Clashes of 1928

The full story of an infamous communal clash in Bangalore 1928 because Abbas Khan, a Councillor was offended by the Murti of a Ganapati