‘Nehru and the Spirit Of India’: A timely study of a vision for a secular and tolerant India

The book is centrally focussed on Jawaharlal Nehru’s imagination of India as an inclusive political community.

https://scroll.in/article/1055510/nehru-and-the-spirit-of-india-a-timely-study-of-a-vision-for-a-secular-and-tolerant-india

#BookReview #ManashFiraqBhattacharjee #JawaharlalNehru #nehru #history #secularism #anticolonialism #culture #FreedomStruggle #IndianHistory #HinduNationalism #hindutva #communalism #books #bookstodon #histodon #india

A new book recounts how princely states were coaxed, coerced, or bludgeoned into joining India

An excerpt from ‘Dethroned: Patel, Menon and The Integration of Princely India’, by John Zubrzycki.

#IndianHistory #history #PrincelyStates #SardarPatel #VPMenon #IndianIndependence #FreedomStruggle #india #JohnZubrzycki #BookExcerpt #books #bookstodon #histodon

Anumita Kaur: New Indian textbooks purged of nation’s Muslim history

"The Taj Mahal is one of India’s most iconic sites. But this year, millions of students across India won’t delve into the Mughal Empire that constructed it.

Instead, Indian students have new textbooks that have been purged of details on the nation’s Muslim history, its caste discrimination and more, in what critics say warps the country’s rich history in an attempt to further Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist agenda."

#narendramodi #india #bjp #indianhistory #caste #islamophobia #nationalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/06/india-textbooks-muslim-history-changes

BJP propagates fiction as history: 'Uri and Nanje Gowda killed Tipu Sultan'

Historians have long believed that Tipu was killed by the British during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1798-99. They call the BJP’s new version a sinister design.

#TipuSultan #history #IndianHistory #BritishRule #karnataka #FreedomStruggle #BJP #RSS #pseudohistory #propaganda #hindutva #india

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/bjp-propagates-fiction-history-uri-and-nanje-gowda-killed-tipu-sultan-174570

Related to an earlier post mentioning indentured servitude I just want to post a documentary.

Coolies: How Britain Re-Invented Slavery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cncg3yhWPI

A lot of different communities have experienced indentured servitude, but how it looked really depended on where you were from, and where you ended up. In some places, conditions were similar to slavery, in other places that comparison would be inappropriate.

#CaribbeanHistory #History #BritishHistory #IndianHistory #Colonialism

This is a picture of cave and work done 200BC where wood was widely used in cave number 12 this is a cluster of 18 caves where Bhuddisist monks use to recide. #india #IndianHistory

P Sainath’s new book amplifies voices and excavates memories of India’s forgotten freedom fighters

‘The Last Heroes’ also acknowledges the role played by women in the freedom struggle, unrecognised and relegated to the shadowy realm of passivity.

#BookReview #PSainath #FreedomStruggle #ColonialRule #history #IndianHistory #bookstodon #books

https://scroll.in/article/1042131/p-sainaths-new-book-amplifies-voices-and-excavates-memories-of-indias-forgotten-freedom-fighters

VHP leader gives anti-Muslim speech

"No one has the power to take away the daughter of a Hindu. Keep in mind that the bitterness is in their blood. Hindu is never cruel, Hindu is always angry, and he fights from the front," says senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Shankar Gaikar in a viral video. The speech was given by Gaikar at a Shaurya Path Sanchalan event, held in Boisar, Maharashtra.

#VHP #BajrangDal #ShankarGaikar #maharashtra #hindutva #HateSpeech #islamophobia #mughals #IndianHistory #history #fascism #india

What History Really Tells Us About Hindu-Muslim Relations

Supposedly irrefutable evidence of division is said to lie in the Muslims over the last 1,000 years having victimised the Hindus, treating them as enslaved. Romila Thapar explains why historians question this theory.

(Text of the C.D. Deshmukh Lecture delivered by Romila Thapar on January 14, 2023, at the India International Centre in New Delhi)

#RomilaThapar #history #hindus #muslims #IndianHistory #nationalism #hindutva #culture #secularism #lecture #LongRead #india

https://thewire.in/history/what-history-really-tells-us-about-hindu-muslim-relations

#educationfortheblind #visuallyimpaired
#religiousconversions #indianhistory

Lachit Borphukan the great Ahom general who beat back the mighty Mughal army at the Battle of Saraighat and thwarted Aurangzeb's expansion into Assam. My article on his Jayanti today do check out and share.
#lachitborphukan #lachitdiwas #ahoms #assam #indianhistory

https://historyunderyourfeet.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/lachit-borphukan/

Bundeli Harbalon ki muh se humne suni thi yeh kahani
Khub Ladi mardani woh hai Jhansi wali Rani.

Remembering Rani of Jhansi, Lakshmibai on her Jayanti today.

#ranilakshmibai #jhansi #indianhistory #india #1857Revolt

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/yz2phh/बदल_हरबल_क_मह_हमन_सन_कहन_थ_खब_लड_मरदन_वह_त_झस_वल/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

How Lydia Muttulakshmi found freedom and her happily ever after, in 19th century Bangalore.
Fellow #history enthusiasts, do what are some of your favourite 'everyman' snippets from history?
#India #bengaluru #indianhistory
https://scroll.in/article/1035243/how-lydia-muttulakshmi-found-freedom-and-her-happily-ever-after-in-19th-century-bangalore

🇻🇳 The stone altar of Đồng Dương, #ChampaKingdom, 9th to 10th century, declared as a National treasure of #Vietnam in 2019
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/fidkvy/the_stone_altar_of_đồng_dương_champa_kingdom_9th/

#IndianHistory #AncientIndia

#ChatrapatiShivaji Maharaj's murti consecrated by himself at the Gopuram of Mallikarjunam Temple in Sri Sailam at the time of his Dakshin Digvijaya in 1677. The Gopuram erected by him was named after him and is still called Shivaji Gopuram
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/fij8zt/chatrapati_shivaji_maharajs_murti_consecrated_by/

#IndianHistory

Statues of Agastya Muni and Nandi were recently discovered while digging in #Yogyakarta, #Indonesia 🇮🇩
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/fiea1w/statues_of_agastya_muni_and_nandi_were_recently/

#IndianHistory #AncientIndia

Ancient burial site found in Uttar Pradesh’s #Sinauli is 3,800-years old, indigenous warrior tribe inhabited the region

https://www.opindia.com/2020/02/uttar-pradesh-sinauli-3800-year-old-burial-site-warrior-tribe/

#IndianHistory #AncientIndia

@ae Very few people – not only in the west, but here in the orient as well – know about Greco-Buddhism, the Indo-Greek Kingdom, the Indo-Scythians, the Kushan empire, Kanishka the Great, and, of course, the art they created — Greco-Buddhist art.
#IndianHistory

#KanganaRanaut says she wants to make a film on #ChandraguptaMaurya: Film industry has not done much justice to our history
https://in.style.yahoo.com/kangana-ranaut-says-she-wants-100805086.html

#bollywood #IndianHistory #MauryanEmpire :ashoka:

Not many Ambedkar fans in India would want to acknowledge that. #IndianHistory #SubhashChandraBose
QT: https://mstdn.foxfam.club/@SwarajyaMag/103531034811614024