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The story of Reservations: Read this past before attempting to shape the future

The history of reservation is considerably older and more complicated than its familiar association with Ambedkar and the Constitution. It involves social hierarchy, colonial institutional change, regional political competition, reform movements and constitutional negotiation.

Census and syllabus: How British Raj played a long game to brand tribals of India as ‘not Hindu’

Leftists have been trying for a long time to claim that the tribals of India are ‘not Hindu’. This is not a modern phenomenon. This is a systematic social engineering that was codified and worked into a brilliantly designed machine by the British rulers of India in the 1800s. 

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.

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.

1921 Munshiganj massacre: How British forces mercilessly killed over 700 peacefully protesting farmers in Raebareli

The massacre took place a few years after the Jallianwala Bagh incident and reportedly resulted in even more bloodshed.

Read about Naga sadhus who fought against Mughals and British both: Nizam of Junagadh poisoned the sadhus, those who survived formed Juna Akhara

The largest of the 13 akharas is Bhairav Akhara, also known Panch Dashnam Juna Akhara which will take part in Maha Kumbh.

The Chapekar Brothers: The unsung revolutionaries who assassinated Englishman Walter Rand in 1897 for his repressive plague control measures

The three Chapekar brothers shot Walter Rand 127 years ago on 22nd June 1897 and he breathed his last on 3rd July 1897.

The Hindu contradicts itself on Sengol to be placed in the new parliament, claims govt’s version is baseless after publishing the same claims

After narrating how the Chola sceptre Sengol was used as a symbol of power from British to India, The Hindu now questions the same claims to attack the govt

Chola dynasty sceptre ‘Sengol’ to be placed in the new parliament building by PM Modi, was forgotten after handed over to Nehru as a...

Historic sceptre, 'Sengol' from Tamil Nadu will be placed in the new parliament, which was used as symbol of transfer of power in 1947

Did you know? Jawaharlal Nehru’s father Motilal Nehru had defended men accused of abetting Sati

Sati was abolished in 1829 through the implementation of the 'Bengal Sati Regulation Act.'

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