Archives for History - Page 3
Targeting Nehruvian Legacy?
The debates about India’s partition, Gandhi murder and policies of Nehru have been a matter of ceaseless debates. Each political tendency has their own interpretation of these events, which in…
Modi on Rampage: Reckless Abuse of History
History is not just the past. It is a potent weapon for various political agendas in the present. It can be clearly seen in the use of history in rise…
Modi’s-Abusing History for Political mileage
The politics of Modi’s parent organization RSS is based on distortion of history, medieval history in particular. To begin with the projection of kings through the prism of religion, to…
Nationalism, Kingdoms and Kings Looking at Shivaji and Rana Pratap
The legend of some of the kings continues in different forms and is used by different political formations. These political formations draw their identity from the past and project it…
Shivaji’s Statue in Arabian Sea
It goes without saying that people like Khedekar and Raj Thackeray, sail in the same boat of intolerant politics, which needs to be condemned. Also the caste angle of controversy…
Many Rams: Many Ramayanas
The recent (Feb. 2008) rampage by ABVP activists in Delhi University protesting against the introduction of Ramanujan's essay "Three Hundred Ramayana's", as the reading text, was not the first such…
History and Community Honor: Protests against film Jodha Akbar
Last month (Jan 2008), one has witnessed the acts of breaking glass panes, disrupting the screening of film Jodha Akbar, as a part of protests by sections of Rajput and…
Book Withdrawal Game: For RSS History is a political weapon
RSS combine has been spreading a version of History which has its roots in communal historiography first introduced by British. According to this the events and phenomenon of history are…
Erasing the Past for Present Political Agenda
Come elections and some emotional issues are brought on. The recent campaign by BJP associate, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, has come at a very crucial time. While the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance…
Veer Savarkar: Revolutionary or Conciliator
Controversies around Savarkar have been resurfacing from last four years since BJP led coalition came to power at the center, be it the unveiling of his portrait in the parliament,…