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Jawahar lal Nehru

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How Jawaharlal Nehru legitimised Marxist historiography and the consequent whitewashing of Islamic invasions

Arvind Singh - 15 April, 2026

Nehru’s The Discovery of India entrenched a Marxist-secular narrative that downplayed Hindu civilisational ethos while recasting Islamic incursions as culturally transformative, shaping India’s post-independence intellectual orthodoxy.

News Reports

Union govt clarifies why Nehru papers taken away by Sonia Gandhi are not marked as ‘missing’, urges her to return the 51 boxes of...

OpIndia Staff - 17 December, 2025

The Union Government on Wednesday issued a clarification to its statement in Parliament on Friday, saying that no paper relating to India’s first Prime...

News Reports

Amit Shah: Splitting Vande Mataram started politics that divided India

OpIndia Staff - 9 December, 2025

Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed the Rajya Sabha, emphasizing the importance of the full Vande Mataram song. He said splitting the song began appeasement politics that weakened India’s unity and contributed to its division. Shah criticized Congress’s historic stance and called for renewed national pride by upholding symbols that unite the country.

Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh’s statement based on facts, documents reveal Jawaharlal Nehru favoured wanted to spend govt money on Babri Masjid

Shriti Sagar - 4 December, 2025

According to the diary entry dated 20th September 1950, Nehru raised a question regarding the Babri Masjid, suggesting that government funds could be used.

News Reports

‘Nehru wanted the Babri Masjid built with public funds, it was Patel who stopped him’: Rajnath Singh in Gujarat

Shriti Sagar - 3 December, 2025

Patel had clarified to Nehru that the ₹30 lakh used for the temple’s reconstruction came entirely from public donations, not from government funds.

News Reports

‘Jinnah wanted Pakistan, but without Indian Muslims. Gandhi and Nehru obliged’: Pak-origin ‘scholar’ reveals how Gandhi, Nehru contributed to Pakistan’s survival

OpIndia Staff - 14 August, 2025

An old viral video of a Pakistani-Swedish 'political scientist' reveals how Gandhi and Nehru helped save Pakistan from collapsing by keeping India's Muslim population.

Political History of India

Freight Equalisation Policy: Another Nehru ‘gift’ that kept mineral-rich states like Bihar and Odisha backward while Southern states and Maharashtra prospered with industrialisation

Rukma Rathore - 27 June, 2025

Former Union Minister Hansraj Bhardwaj admitted that the FEP needed to be abolished because it had failed to meet its goals.

News Reports

Nehru yelled at Mountbatten and Liaquat Ali to appoint his sister as ambassador—having already made her a minister even before independence: The early seeds...

रोहित पांडेय - 24 May, 2025

As Nehru entered mainstream Congress politics, his stature grew with time. Even before independence, he had become so influential that Congress policies and their implementation began to revolve around him. This trend can be seen as early as the 1930s.

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