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The controversy surrounding the question of the origin of the ‘Rajputs’ is as mired as it is infructuous. Whatever the origin of their clans might may have been: Indian or foreign, Brahmin or Kshatriya, the kings of these dynasties shouldered willingly the Kshatriya’s dharma to protect the body and spirit of their land, people and culture.Continue Reading

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An accurate interpretation of the term ‘Hindavi Swarajya’ would be: Hindu Paramountcy… an assertion of the ascendance of Hindus in the lands of their ancestors, primacy of their civilisational ethos, religious values and cultural expressions to eradicate the corrupting and degrading influence and ignominious vassalage to Islamic rule. And there is not a single act in the career of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj that deviated from this vision.Continue Reading

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“Every precept which was enjoined by the doctors of other religions he [Akbar] treated as manifest and decisive, in contradistinction to this Religion of ours [Islam], all the doctrines of which he set down to be senseless, and of modern origin, and the founders of it as nothing but poor Arabs, a set of scoundrels and highway robbers, and the people of Islam as accursed.”Continue Reading