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September 26, 1925: Mappila prisoners, charged with agitation against British Rule in India, going for trial in Calicut in Kerala.

Communalising martyrdom

The deletion of the names of two top leaders of the Malabar Mappila rebellion from the Dictionary of Martyrs of India’s Freedom Struggle invalidates t
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The Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, now bereft of the security cover once provided by a ring of shops and homes around it. Local Muslims worried that an Ayodhya-like situation might be engineered to destroy it.

General miasma

The undermining of democracy and secularism under the present dispensation is of a piece with the aspirations of crony capitalism, which requires an u
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Pandalam palace committee leaders circumambulating the Ayyappa shrine as part of the atonement rituals under way at the Sabarimala Sannidhanam, on October 22, 2018.

Manufactured legends

The legends about Sabarimala now being presented as history were manufactured by upper-caste worshippers who snatched the shrine from tribal people an
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