Social factors played a key role in developing a Sikh socio-cultural identity. Even before Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the British visitors to India saw Sikhs as special
This volume has material on Bhagat Singh plus his essays and prison notebooks, but is marked by shoddy lack of context and refusal to probe the one prickly issue
Nehruvian clarion calls, socialist barbs, Indira’s promises, Anna’s vows, Janata’s stings, Rajiv’s fall and Modi’s jibes...the story of Indian politics can be read through its demotic slogans
The Congress must learn that primordial religious loyalties can’t make a nation
Ripudaman Singh of Nabha had the spine to stand up to the British, paid for this in kind and garnered wide support. This is his most detailed biography.
Why Orissa chief minister Navin Patnaik’s idea to include ahimsa in the preamble to the Constitution of India needs to be taken very seriously
Post 1857, the British insisted on identifying Indians as two: Hindus, Muslims. Those imagined communities have become part of our mental fabric.
It’s not wrong to compare the farmers’ march to the Dandi March, but both drew on a tradition of peaceful protest harking back to the Shantiparva
By pitting itself against the bureaucracy, AAP is undermining the very mechanism its government needs to deliver what it promised the people
The Sikh response to Indian nationalism was complex—loyal soldiers of the colonial army, they didn’t fall for the ‘separate electorate’ idea
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