༒Social factors played a key role in developing a Sikh socio-cultural identity. Even before Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the British visitors to India saw Sikhs as special
M. Rajivlochan
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🌳This volume has material on Bhagat Singh plus his essays and prison notebooks, but is marked by shoddy lack of context and refusal to probe the one prickly issue
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ꦑNehruvian clarion calls, socialist barbs, Indira’s promises, Anna’s vows, Janata’s stings, Rajiv’s fall and Modi’s jibes...the story of Indian politics can be read through its demotic slogans
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𒊎The Congress must learn that primordial religious loyalties can’t make a nation
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♏Ripudaman Singh of Nabha had the spine to stand up to the British, paid for this in kind and garnered wide support. This is his most detailed biography.
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👍Why Orissa chief minister Navin Patnaik’s idea to include ahimsa in the preamble to the Constitution of India needs to be taken very seriously
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🍸Post 1857, the British insisted on identifying Indians as two: Hindus, Muslims. Those imagined communities have become part of our mental fabric.
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🌌It’s not wrong to compare the farmers’ march to the Dandi March, but both drew on a tradition of peaceful protest harking back to the Shantiparva
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ℱBy pitting itself against the bureaucracy, AAP is undermining the very mechanism its government needs to deliver what it promised the people
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𝓡The Sikh response to Indian nationalism was complex—loyal soldiers of the colonial army, they didn’t fall for the ‘separate electorate’ idea
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