R C Majumdar

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

Remembering Acharya Ramesh Chandra Majumdar: A Century of Spotless Scholarship and Inspiration

Remembering Acharya Ramesh Chandra Majumdar: A Century of Spotless Scholarship and Inspiration

Remembering R.C. Majumdar, one of India's greatest gifts to the world of historical scholarship

Luminaries of the Modern Indian Renaissance: Or a Commentary on  Our Civilisational Amnesia

Luminaries of the Modern Indian Renaissance: Or a Commentary on Our Civilisational Amnesia

When we reminisce about the Indian freedom movement, the year 1858 is a turning point of sorts. That was the year when the control of India passed from the East India Company to the British Crown. From 1858 onwards, for roughly 50 years, a gradual, steady and in many cases,

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

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

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

India’s Independence was Secondary to Mohandas Gandhi: R.C. Majumdar Unmasks Gandhi

India’s Independence was Secondary to Mohandas Gandhi: R.C. Majumdar Unmasks Gandhi

In the previous part discussing R.C. Majumdar’s frank and objective critique of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, we had seen how Majumdar showed, using Gandhi’s own words, that Satyagraha had no fair role in India’s struggle for freedom. In the present episode, we present a continuation of the

The Last Chance for Hindus: Plea for a Contemporary Sanatana Renaissance

The Last Chance for Hindus: Plea for a Contemporary Sanatana Renaissance

This tumultuous century provides an opportunity for comprehensive decolonisation of the Hindu cultural psyche