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The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself

Lord Curzon

  • The Hindification of East India

    Bihar, Odisha, Assam, and now Bengal: the old Bengal Presidency votes as a single saffron block. A century after the bhadralok forced Curzon to reunite Bengal, their grandchildren have completed…

  • Colonial Dravidian

    X.T.M, picking up Vijay’s post, argues that the Aryan-Dravidian divide, caste and the Hindu-Muslim split were largely colonial constructions, quoting Lord Curzon that India’s natural boundaries are mountains and seas,…

    X.T.M27 April 201812 comments
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