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Vaibhav Purandare

Why did Bal Gangadhar Tilak start a ‘private English school’ in the late 19th century?

An excerpt from ‘Tilak: The Empire’s Biggest Enemy’, by Vaibhav Purandare.

Vaibhav Purandare
· Jul 03, 2024 · 08:30 am
How Shivaji’s latest biographer researched the life story of the Maratha emperor

How Vaibhav Purandare gathered material and tried to filter out biases for the first single-volume biography of Shivaji.

Vaibhav Purandare
· Aug 28, 2022 · 08:30 am
Why did Hitler and the SS head Himmler send a team of Germans to the Himalayas before World War II?

An excerpt from ‘Hitler and India: The Untold Story of His Hatred for the Country and its People,’ by Vaibhav Purandare.

Vaibhav Purandare
· Aug 17, 2021 · 10:19 am

‘If Hindutva is to sustain itself on a cow’s legs, it’ll crash at the hint of a crisis’: VD Savarkar

An excerpt from ‘Savarkar: The True Story of the Father of Hindutva’, a biography by Vaibhav Purandare.

Vaibhav Purandare
· Aug 17, 2019 · 05:30 pm