Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Political History of India

Research essays about the political history of India

Opinions

Revisiting Sainbari, a blot on Indian Democracy: When Communists made a mother eat rice with her dead sons’ blood

K Bhattacharjee -
The Sainbari incident remains the most horrific instance of political violence in the country.
Opinions

Guess who supported the Emergency? The Communists, of course

Ashish Shukla -
Every anniversary of Emergency in India (June 25, 1975) and worn-out clichés on muzzling media, despotic Indira, state repression and the complicity of judiciary begin to do rounds.
Opinions

‘Once a person was in jail, he didn’t face much problem there’: How leftist academics whitewash the Emergency

Abhishek Banerjee -
Today is exactly 44 years since Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency on June 25, 1975. Yesterday, in the Rajya Sabha, Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad made a passionate appeal to bring back the “Old India.”
Political History of India

The Partition of Bengal: Supported by all sections of Bengali Hindus to protect their own lives and identity

Kausik Gangopadhyay -
On West Bengal day, we revisit the partition of West Bengal and how all Bengali Hindus fought for their homeland
News Reports

Comrade Yechury inaugurates ‘EMS Smrithi’ as a tribute to caste system proponent EMS Namboodiripad

OpIndia Staff -
EMS Namboodiripad was a staunch proponent of caste system
News Reports

Birsa Munda, a tribal legend who was a nightmare for Christian missionaries during the British Raj

OpIndia Staff -
Birsa Munda is one legend who has made a long-standing impact on India's fight against the British.
Political History of India

Church Bombings in the year 2000: How Christian priests blamed Hindu groups for attacks committed by Islamic terrorists

K Bhattacharjee -
Along expected lines, Christian priests blamed Hindu right-wing groups for the 2000 Church Bombings but reality could not have been more different.
Politics

Name of Sitaram Kesri, not a favourite of Sonia Gandhi, missing from Congress’ official website as former party president

OpIndia Staff -
Sitaram Kesri was reportedly locked up in the bathroom at Congress headquarters in Akbar Road so he could not stop Sonia from entering the office with her supporters to take over as party president.
Opinions

Rahul Gandhi and Congress might insult Veer Savarkar now, but this is what Indira Gandhi had to say about the freedom fighter

GujaratRiots.com -
Indira Gandhi is on record saying as Prime Minister: “Savarkar’s defiance of the British government has its own place in the freedom struggle.”
Opinions

Fear and falsehood: How a colonialist ecosystem paints the Modi government as communal

Saket Suryesh -
Was Akhlaq killed because the killers wanted him to convert to Hinduism? The incident is called communal because the killers belonged to one community and the victim to another.
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