Political History of India

Who coined the term ‘Pakistan’ and how Indian Muslims accepted it, furthering the movement for partition: All you need to know

Ironically, Rehmat Ali Khan, who so vehemently vouched for a separate Muslim nation which was supposed to be the dreamland of the Muslims of British India, could not get a piece of land in that Muslim dreamland even for his grave.

Indira Gandhi’s lust for absolute power, strong opposition, and divided Congress: How “One Nation One Election” came to an end in India after 1967

The "One Nation, One Election" bill in India aims to synchronize elections for the Lok Sabha and state legislatures, addressing election frequency, resource management, and governmental stability.

The many desecrations of Somnath Mandir by Muslim invaders: How Nehru opposed its restoration fearing “Hindu revivalism”

Somnath Mandir had been attacked and pillaged at least six times by Muslim rulers and former PM Pandit Nehru was against its revival.

Tracing the history of Sambhal: From ancient Puranic legends to Mughal conquests and the colonial account of the centuries-old Harihar Mandir-Shahi Jama Masjid conflict

A deeper study into Sambhal's history provides us with lesser known facts about the possible provenance about the Harihar Temple and the subsequent conflict over the origins of Shahi Jama Masjid.

UK’s richest 10 per cent took half of the $64.82 trillion wealth looted from India: A reckoning with Britain’s rapacious colonial legacy

The British middle class was also greatly benefited from the wealth looted from India while Indians were left to suffer in poverty.

From fear of nationalist undercurrent to canards of an impending ‘Japanese bombing’: Read the forgotten British suppression of Kumbh festival

The Britishers claimed that the Japanese could bomb the Kumbh location and prohibited the religious gathering,

‘Fatima Sheikh’ is not the only lie, Indian history is filled with many such fiction like Breast tax, Aryan Invasion, Mughals building temple, Amarnath...

As Dilip Mandal reveals that Fatima Sheikh was not a real person but a fictional character, a look on many such fictions in Indian history

India’s first Muslim teacher Fatima Sheikh never existed? Writer-activist Dilip Mandal says he invented the ‘fictional character’

Author and activist Dilip Mandal has claimed that Fatima Sheikh, celebrated as India's first Muslim school teacher, never existed, and he created the ‘fictional character’

1954 Kumbh, 1000+ deaths, and PM Nehru: How the tragedy was downplayed as the ‘death of a few beggars’. An eyewitness account of the...

By the memoir of NN Mukherjee, is it evident that the Congress government back then whether the Jawaharlal Nehru government at the center or the Pant-led state government in Uttar Pradesh did everything in their power to suppress evidence of the stampede by burning the mortal remains of the victims.

On this day, 118 years ago, the Muslim League was formed: How it came to be and how, after partition, a faction stayed back...

The Muslim League quickly transitioned from demanding a separate electorate for Muslims to asking for a separate country.

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