August 13th, 2001 Communal riots: did they occur earlier than the British Period of Indian History [1757-1947]? Is it right to hold the British responsible for creating and nurturing the Hindu-Muslim divide which led to the Partition of India in August 1947? While the entire blame for the Hindu-Muslim divide cannot be ascribed to the… Continue reading Communal Riot 1720 AD (Part I)
May 12th, 2001 One of the conditioned reflexes of the Hindu mind in respect of the History of India is that forced conversions were a regular feature of Muslim rule. This idea was aired and emphasised by the British writing Indian history and has now lodged so firmly in the mind that it is common… Continue reading Forcible Conversions by Muslim Rulers
January 2, 2001 A reader writes :- “I have been regularly reading your column…You may permit me to say that your column is frequently unbalanced and one sided.”
February 8th, 2001 We return to the accusation that ‘Itihaas’ suffers from prejudice, partiality and lack of balance. Perhaps it would be as well to provide some details of the machinations of British historians of the 19th Century.
February 26th, 2012 In 1947 there was no consensus on what independent India should be like. Today, Hindutva forces are playing sectarian politics and still living by the British ‘divide and rule’ policy. The brutal repression of the 1857 uprising included the killing of all those who were already leaders or had the potential for… Continue reading In Savarkar’s India we stand eternally divided
