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English is now code for ‘Khan Market Gang’. BJP is fighting a phantom enemy
English is now code for a clever adversary we’ve known in the past, variously as ‘anti-national’, ‘tukde-tukde gang’, ...
RJD's Achilles' heel: Why BJP is championing the Dalit cause to target Lalu Yadav in poll-bound Bihar
The BJP's concerted attempt to corner Lalu Prasad Yadav over an alleged insult to BR Ambedkar at an event to mark his ...
Caste as seen through an Orientalist lens: The ironic legacy of 18th-century Company paintings
Depictions of artisans, labourers and tradespeople clumsily captured Indian society and discrimination, but the driving ...
When Dubai almost became a part of India
It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.
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Opinion A different nationalism: Let’s go back to our Constitution
Just two years before the Chalisgaon incident, Ambedkar had the Manusmriti publicly burned in response to upper ... to attribute caste violence and its hierarchical social arrangements solely to the ...
‘Earliest Indians were migrants…India has been connected to the world from the very beginning,’ says historian Audrey Truschke
Years of History on the Subcontinent, historian Audrey Truschke underlines why it is important to understand the subcontinent ...
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Bombay buildings’ modernism was driven by the middle class, not elites
Compared to the intellectual modernism of Calcutta or the climatically responsive architecture of Madras, Bombay’s modernism ...