Indian National Congress
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Did the British Divide India?
Omar Ali argues that Pakistan was ultimately the Muslim League’s creation, but that some British rulers promoted it for their own ends: divide and rule, the Congress stance in 1939,…
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Book Review: लोक माझे सांगाती
A reviewer praises Sharad Pawar’s autobiography for his development vision and his stand on the Namantar controversy and women’s rights, but faults its lack of explanation of his miscalculations and…
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Some brief points on Gandhi
Nachiketa explains how his view of Gandhi changed from partial sympathy with Nathuram Godse’s arguments to near reversal, seeing Gandhi’s non-violence as pragmatic, his pacifism as rooted more in Jain…
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The Middle Path: Towards a Liberal Conservatism in India (Part 1)
In the first of three posts, the author answers Slapstik’s ‘Indian woke wears saffron’, arguing that the Bhakti movement was no rupture from earlier Dharmic traditions, that Congress had indigenous-minded…
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Rahul Gandhi Resignation
Quotes Rahul Gandhi’s resignation tweet on serving the Congress Party, sarcastically calling it a powerful letter, and adds that the author feels uncharitable towards India and England after the World…
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Browncast Ep 38: Indian Elections
On Browncast Episode 38, hosts and guests MJ, Kushal and Vidhi debate India’s 2019 election, covering caste dynamics, the BJP’s rise in Bengal and Odisha, personality politics, communalism, and a…
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Manifesto Musings
Opening a planned series on the 2019 election manifestos, the author compares the BJP’s leader-centred, ‘resolution’ style with the Congress’s focus on people and delivery, and asks whether caste, communal…
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Why India must become the Hindu Israel!
The author argues India should be a Hindu state in the way Israel is a Jewish one, a ‘Hindu Israel’ that is civic, well ordered and magnanimous toward Pakistan, and…
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Indians as Officers in the British Indian Army
Hamid Hussain offers notes on the first Indians to become officers in the British Indian Army, arguing that the common Pakistani view that the British favoured non-Muslims in the army…
