Devadas Gandhi News Today

NEW DELHI, Jan. 31, 1948 (UP) - The body of sainted Mohandas K. Gandhi today was committed to the flames of the burning ghat as violence touched off by his assassination flared anew in Bombay.

The 1931 Poona Pact shaped India’s Dalit political representation, and its implications are felt even in today’s parliamentary elections | Latest News India

The collapse of the party system is perhaps the greatest threat to India's democracy and it hasn't got the attention it deserves, the historian says.

Some political parties have become family firms. Others have become quasi-religious cults exalting their leader as a living god.

POLITICS AND PLAY | The death of the Indian party system

<strong>Other lives:</strong> Campaigner for the reconciliation of people and nations after the second world war

Majority of correspondence with Devadas appears in print for the first time in a highly readable volume

An excerpt from Ramachandra Guha’s ‘Rebels against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom’.

The 90-volume project he spearheaded remains a magnificent and unsurpassed work of collective scholarship.

K. Swaminathan and his team expertly set Gandhi’s words in context