India

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/12/2020
  

  Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt (Review)

  An attack by the pirate Henry Every on a ship owned by the Grand Mughal of India jeopardized the toehold the British East India Company had gained in India. The British government's response helped launch imperial rule. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/4/20
  

  Gandhi’s Killer Evokes Admiration as Never Before

  As Hindu nationalism continues its march across India, a cult of personality is rising around Nathuram Godse, the Hindu extremist who killed Gandhi.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/25/20
  

  As India’s Constitution Turns 70, Opposing Sides Fight to Claim Its Author as One of Their Own

  But 70 years after the Indian constitution came into force, left-wing protesters aren’t the only group claiming to be the ideological heirs to Ambedkar. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/20/20
  

  ‘To India I come as a pilgrim’: Martin Luther King Jr.’s remarkable trip to honor his hero

  by Gillian Brockell

  King first learned about Gandhi as a seminary student in 1949, just a year after Gandhi had been assassinated. He soon wrote about Gandhi in his schoolwork as a person who “greatly reveal[s] the working of the Spirit of God.”

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  12/19/19
  

  Indian police detain historian Guha at protest against citizenship law

  Indian police detained one of the country’s most respected historians and intellectuals, Ramachandra Guha, on Thursday during a demonstration in the southern city of Bengaluru against a new citizenship law based on religion.

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• 11/12/19
  

  Muslims Should Reject Indian Supreme Court's Land Offer

  by B. Z. Khasru

  In a mockery of justice, India's top court gives orthodox Hindus a way to avenge their humiliation under Muslim rule for a thousand years.

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• 10/20/19
  

  Modi's 'two nations' theory roils India

  by B.Z. Khasru

  By scraping Kashmir's status, the prime minister has taken a highly risky step toward making the misguided dream of the right-wing Hindu extremists come true and shaken up secular India.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  10/02/2019
  

  When Gandhi’s Salt March Rattled British Colonial Rule

  by Evan Andrews

  In March 1930, Mahatma Gandhi and his followers set off on a brisk 241-mile march to the Arabian Sea town of Dandi to lay Indian claim to the nation's own salt.

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• SOURCE: Origins
  October 2019
  

  How Right-Wing Politics and Hindu Nationalism Became Triumphant in India

  by Archana Venkatesh

  The roots of nationalists’ politics in India are religious, and those roots run deep.

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• 9/8/19
  

  Hindus-Muslim clash 72 years after Britain left India

  by B. Z. Khasru

  In light of India's recent decision to annex the Muslim-majority Kashmir state, it's important to understand the region's history. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/4/19
  

  The Original Evil Corporation

  by William Dalrymple

  The East India Company, a trading firm with its own army, was masterful at manipulating governments for its own profit. It’s the prototype for today’s multinationals.

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• 8/11/19
  

  Can Muslims get a fair shake in India?

  by B.Z. Khasru

  By scraping Kashmir's special autonomy status, Modi has taken a dangerous step toward implementing the vision of his ultra-nationalist party's spiritual guru, the late V.D. Savarkar.

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  7/5/2019
  

  India’s forgotten power broker—what was her secret?

  Swashbuckling Begum Samru commanded armies, took a litany of lovers, and dubbed herself Joanna, after Joan of Arc.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/4/19
  

  Kashmir conflict is not just a border dispute between India and Pakistan

  by Chitralekha Zutshi

  The desire for autonomy in different areas of Kashmir has led to repeated uprisings and independence movements.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/7/19
  

  Long before #MeToo, women in many parts of the world organized successful campaigns against sexual violence

  by Alka Kurian

  Women in countries such as India, Pakistan and others have long organized successful campaigns against sexual harassment.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-29-18
  

  Four times as tall as the Statue of Liberty: India’s new monument to its ‘Iron Man’

  So big, in fact, that it will give India bragging rights to the world’s tallest statue — a nearly 600-foot creation that says as much about India’s global aspirations as it does about the political ego of its leader.

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• 7/15/18
  

  India’s Cities Have an Ecological Crisis.  A Historian Knows How They Got There.

  by Harini Nagendra

  It was during the colonial and post-colonial period when the people of India’s relationship with nature changed (for the worse).

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-17-18
  

  Indian Children’s Book Lists Hitler as Leader ‘Who Will Inspire You’

  An Indian publisher came under fire this week for including Hitler in a children’s book about world leaders who have “devoted their lives for the betterment of their country and people.”

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-10-18
  

  As India’s Tensions Boil, Even a Statue of Gandhi Isn’t Safe

  The attacks were part of a wave of vandalism that has unleashed accusations and recriminations and sent political tensions boiling over as, one by one, at least six monuments have been vandalized.

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• SOURCE: timesnownews.com
  3-5-18
  

  Historian Romila Thapar: "I write what I think is right…take it or leave it”

  A professional historian’s struggle in India with rightwing critics who want to silence her.