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Freedom struggle

Justice Govind Mathur: The principles of democracy can’t be scarified at altar of majoritarianism

Govind Mathur
· May 05, 2023 · 09:00 am
Why hasn’t Nitish Kumar’s new government overturned the decision to demolish Patna’s Sultan Palace?

Shivangi Pandey Ali Fraz Rezvi
· Sep 22, 2022 · 11:30 am
Indians must not let ‘authoritarian arrogance’ undermine unity, says Manmohan Singh

Scroll Staff
· Aug 15, 2022 · 12:40 pm
‘India is Not Lost’: Sahmat show on freedom movement is a reminder of country’s history of struggle

Priyali Prakash
· Oct 31, 2021 · 11:30 am
Bhicoo Batlivala: The forgotten freedom fighter whose US tour made the British government anxious

John O’Brien
· Sep 25, 2021 · 09:30 pm
Ramachandra Guha: A tribute to the Greatest Gandhian

Ramachandra Guha
· Aug 15, 2021 · 06:30 am
The Tilak-Jinnah pact embodied communal harmony that is much needed in modern-day India

Sudheendra Kulkarni
· Aug 03, 2020 · 11:30 am
Tilak and Jinnah: A forgotten friendship and symbol of Hindu-Muslim unity in colonial India

Sudheendra Kulkarni
· Aug 02, 2020 · 07:30 am
On Lokmanya Tilak’s death centenary, it’s time to re-examine his legacy

Sudheendra Kulkarni
· Aug 01, 2020 · 07:30 am
The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic played a part in India’s freedom struggle

Maura Chhun, The Conversation
· Apr 22, 2020 · 08:30 pm
‘Never said a word against Gandhi, Nehru,’ says BJP MP Anantkumar Hegde amid Opposition uproar in LS

Scroll Staff
· Feb 04, 2020 · 02:40 pm
‘Are you with Godse or Gandhi?’ Congress asks PM after Anantkumar Hegde ridicules the Mahatma

Scroll Staff
· Feb 03, 2020 · 03:06 pm
Gandhi’s freedom struggle was ‘one big drama’ staged with British approval: BJP MP Anantkumar Hegde

Scroll Staff
· Feb 03, 2020 · 11:08 am
Maharashtra government announces pensions for those imprisoned during Emergency

Scroll Staff
· Jun 25, 2019 · 03:17 pm
Fifty years after 1857, a British mother used the Uprising to try to get an Army job for her son

Hedley Sutton
· Jun 24, 2019 · 08:30 pm
Tawaifs: The unsung heroes of India’s freedom struggle

Soumya Rao
· May 14, 2019 · 11:30 am
How a Lahore landmark named for a British radical came to be linked with Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Haroon Khalid
· Apr 18, 2019 · 06:30 pm
‘Like Holi with the blood of Hindus and Muslims’: This song about Jallianwala Bagh still resonates

Sumangala Damodaran
· Apr 13, 2019 · 07:38 pm
Photos: London has been memorialising the homes of Indian reformers and freedom fighters for years

Alexander Williams
· Jan 24, 2019 · 11:30 am
Subhas Chandra Bose saw himself as a secular leftist. Why is the BJP trying to appropriate him?

Shoaib Daniyal
· Oct 23, 2018 · 06:30 pm