Since independence
South Asian history after 1947, including 1965 and 1971.
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1992: Modi in Kashmir
A compilation of sources on Narendra Modi’s role in the January 1992 flag-hoisting at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk, including his own narration and his website’s account, presented without value judgement.
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Operation Bluestar. Video Documenary
A one-line post adding a video documentary on Operation Bluestar to Hamid Hussain’s earlier review.
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July 1987: Reports from a different India
A reproduced July 1987 news report on attacks on two buses in Haryana and Punjab, in which gunmen thought to be Sikh separatists killed dozens of passengers, mostly Hindus.
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Operation Bluestar
On the thirtieth anniversary, Hamid Hussain traces how the centre-Punjab conflict, Sikh political rivalries, rural distress and Bhindranwale’s rise led to the June 1984 army operation to clear militants from…
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The Golden Temple
Posts Hartosh Singh Bal’s account blaming Rajiv Gandhi’s blunders for Operation Bluestar, with the poster’s view that 1984 was a great crime within an action-reaction story, and that religion should…
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Bangladesh war hero is history
On the sale of INS Vikrant, the poster argues India has never written proper history and that the 1971 war should be retold around its victims, mainly Hindus driven out…
