Bollywood entertainer Swara Bhasker, who had stirred a row in 2018 with her “I felt like reduced to a vagina” open letter to Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the maker of the film Padmavat, over the Jauhar climax. Despite being told why her assessment of Jauhar was wrong, Swara Bhaskar has reiterated her retarded take on Jauhar.

Marxist historiography in India emerged alongside Muslim separatism and later became an intellectual framework for defending Muslim political concessions, recasting the history of medieval India, and shifting responsibility for Partition onto Hindu nationalist forces.