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Rajarshi Rammohun Roy–I

On: June 2, 2019

Raja Rammohun Roy with his gigantic intellectual and scholastic prowess, cogent representation of Indian religious, cultural and economic interests prevented the misapprehension and misconstruction of its cultural practices (including polytheism, idolatry, Hindu traditions and even ‘satī’) from being used against Indians. None among the Indians in that period possessed the brilliant faculties of Roy to hold rational and logical discourse in the European public sphere.Continue Reading

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Ahalyabai Holkar

On: May 31, 2019

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“It was, I trow, a joyous sight to see
Their noble Baee her seat of judgement fill.”

(‘Ahalya Baee’, by Mrs. Joanna Baillie)Continue Reading

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‘Haldighati’ The Thermopylae Of Rajasthan – IV

On: May 26, 2019

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Emerging out of the dust and scrimmage, Man Singh noticed a looming spectre appear before him, and suddenly the towering figure of the Rana astride his trusty steed, Chetak, was upon him…Continue Reading

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A Tribute to the ‘Shivbhushan’

On: May 10, 2019

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Bedekar advocated genuine history writing based on original sources and evidences without propagandistic motives. He said: “Nothing should be written or said by a history researcher without proper documentary evidence”. His oeuvre is an invaluable contribution in emotive history-writing to awaken a people apart from being definitive reference material for corrective re-writing of our history, available to us through his books and speeches which must be translated into English and other languages and mainstreamed.Continue Reading

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‘Terror Behind The Walls’ – The Penal Colonies (Part III)

On: April 12, 2019

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The inhuman conditions, the excruciating daily grind, the soul-destroying sadism of its keepers was devised calculatedly to snuff out the will to live in the prisoners, leave alone continue a political struggle.Continue Reading

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‘Haldighati’ The Thermopylae Of Rajasthan – III

On: April 6, 2019

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The Battle of Haldighati can be seen as the precursor to the use of guerrilla tactics which was perfected into a most potent and efficacious form of warfare in later centuries by Maharaj Shivaji of the Marathas and his own descendent, Maharana Raj Singh I, against Aurangzeb.Continue Reading

‘Haldighati’ The Thermopylae Of Rajasthan – II

On: March 15, 2019

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The talks floundered due to Akbar’s obstinacy on getting Pratap to agree to two conditions that were anathema to that proud bearer of an ancient lineage: to appear personally in the imperial court to pay homage and to accept the proposal of a marital alliance with the Mughals. The Rana wanted to merely retain his right to an independent and dignified existence.Continue Reading

The Problem in Restoration of the Kāśī Viśwanātha Temple by Marathas

On: March 10, 2019

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Why was the Gyānvāpī mosque never destroyed by Marathas even though it was built by Aurangzeb after destroying the older Kāśī Viśwanātha temple?Continue Reading

‘Haldighati’: The Thermopylae Of Rajasthan – I

On: March 1, 2019

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Should the Rana have trudged the path of a lonely and seemingly impossible particularist struggle, staking the lives of his men and meagre resources, and like them have his possessions reduced to naught? Was he merely a stubborn impediment to a magnanimous Emperor’s vision of a united country, motivated by false pride…?Continue Reading

The History of Ayōdhyā and the Rāma Janmabhūmī Dispute – I

On: February 9, 2019

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The movement for reclaiming the Rāma Janmabhūmī site over the past three centuries can be regarded as the standard bearing struggle in the Hindus’ bid at civilisational reassertion by regaining control of their sacred sites in their homeland, which had been destroyed by invading barbarians and inimical ideologies during the past millennium.Continue Reading

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