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British records on India

The two volumes contain British documents on Kashmir and Hyderabad, Gandhi’s assassination and other economic and political developments in India and

Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan photographed with Sir Owen Dixon, United Nations Mediator on Kashmir and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister at a meeting held at Government House, New Delhi on July 20, 1950.

It is a revolt

As the Third Kashmir Crisis unfolds, Kashmiris seek a new order by a new compact and not redress of their grievances. But with India firm on not conce

Libel is no crime

The Supreme Court’s recent judgment pronouncing defamation as a criminal offence is out of sync with the law in the democratic world, where it is ess

New Delhi : Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and his US counterpart Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter address a joint Press Conference at South Block in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI Photo by Shirish Shete(PTI4_12_2016_000084B)

The secret accord

What are the terms of the deal that Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded with President Barack Obama and what do they mean for the country? Modi sho

Modi’s U.S. ally

The Modi government seems to be flattered because the U.S. has chosen India as its foot soldier in its confrontations with China and Russia.

A woman spreads out fodder for rescued cattle at a 'goushala', or a cow shelter, run by Bharatiya Gou Rakshan Parishad, an arm of Hindu nationalist group Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), at Aangaon village in the western Indian state of Maharashtra February 20, 2015. Hindu nationalists in India have stepped up attacks on the country's beef industry, seizing trucks with cattle bound for abattoirs and blockading meat processing plants in a bid to halt the trade in the world's second-biggest exporter. Picture taken February 20. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade (INDIA - Tags: RELIGION BUSINESS ANIMALS)

The ban on cow slaughter

The provision in the Constitution to ban cow slaughter, Article 48, was conceived in deceit and executed through fraud.

A security state

In all cases that touch on the twin issues of national security and civil liberty, the Supreme Court’s judgments are short on legal analysis and rich

Britain & Arabs

This book is a fair account of the roots of the tragedy that has overtaken the Arab world.

The first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with political leader Sheikh Abdullah

Roots of the Kashmir dispute

Reflecting popular opinion, Sheikh Abdullah was against Kashmir’s accession to India. Reflecting Indian opinion and his own preferences, Nehru would

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting with a delegation of Aligarh Muslim University, led by Vice Chancellor, Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah in New Delhi on Saturday. PTI Photo (PTI3_5_2016_000160B)

History of Aligarh Muslim University

In the battle to retain its minority character, AMU was denied even elementary justice in 1965, and it is the same in 2016. There is time still for th

VARANASI, UTTAR PRADESH, 12/12/2015:JAPANESE PM SHINZO ABE-MODI AT VARANASI :: Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing puja during Ganga aarti at the Dashashwamedh Ghat on the bank of river Ganga in Varanasi on Saturday. Photo Rajeev Bhatt

Nationalism vs Hindutva

The ideologues of the ruling dispensation believe not in Indian nationalism but in Hindu nationalism, or Hindutva, which is the earliest version of th

Sedition: Colonial relic

The law of sedition was introduced by the British colonial regime to stifle dissent. The time has now come for a movement against the way in which the

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