Historical Figures
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Why the caste of an ancient Indian king has sparked a modern political battle
Gurjars and Rajputs, both electorally significant communities in the Hindi heartland, claim king Mihir Bhoj belonged to their caste.
Nachiket Deuskar
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VP Menon’s biography: Was the man who charmed the princes really the architect of modern India?
The political and the personal are combined in this mammoth book on Menon’s life by his great-granddaughter Narayani Basu.
Geeta Doctor
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Akbar was not ‘great’, used to misbehave with women, claims Rajasthan BJP chief
Madanlal Saini said Rajput warrior Maharana Pratap was the true inheritor of the title ‘great’.
Scroll Staff
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Memoir: A journalist remembers the 1960s and how the Naxal movement was portrayed in books and films
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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‘What does it take / to let go?’: There’s a new anthology of English haikus written by Indian poets
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Ordinary voters flagged Modi speech to Election Commission – and came up against a broken system
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Congress moves Madras HC seeking Election Commission action against Modi for propagating hate speech
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The many lives of Shyamji Krishnavarma, the man Modi mixed up with SP Mukherjee
The British Bar recently rescinded its 1909 ban imposed on the Indian nationalist whom the BJP claims as one of its own for having been an inspirational figure for Veer Savarkar.
Anu Kumar
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Spiritual violence and the divine revolution of Aurobindo Ghosh
The spiritual and political blurred throughout the extraordinary life of the 'revolutionary Sannyasi'.
University of Cambridge