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Despite holding important positions, Hindus retain little political power in western nations and people of Indian origin often play up the British atrocity literature tropes to better fit in

A unique feature of Indian history is that over thousands of years people of different nationalities had entered India in large numbers. 

Maharaja Jiwajirao Madhorao Scindia of Ujjain and Gwalior became Patel’s friend and assisted him in unifying Indian states Dr Rajendra Prasad observed on May 13, 1959, how the legacy of Sardar Patel was being sidelined. He mentioned how Sardar Patel had been forgotten, but he also acknowledged

David Adam addresses Marx’s concept of a socialist society in relation to various concepts of the state.

Let’s start with one of those insights that are as obvious as they are easy to forget: if you want to master something, you should study the highest achievements of your field. If you want to learn w…

NASA plans to explore Psyche, an asteroid made of iron, nickel and we don’t know what else.

First published at Socialist Project. Given that the immanent drive and constant tendency of capital is to atomize the working class, what are the effects of this tendency? For the atomized worker, all other workers are competitors; all other workers are enemies in so far as they are competing for the same jobs. All other workers potentially stand between them and the satisfaction of their needs.

Acclaimed political thinker John Keane has tracked the concept of democracy from the age of assembly democracy in Athens, to European-inspired electoral democracy and the birth of representative government in his book The Shortest History of Democracy.

Supposedly irrefutable evidence of division is said to lie in the Muslims over the last 1,000 years having victimised the Hindus, treating them as enslaved. Romila Thapar explains why historians question this theory.

Thapar’s lecture to a familiar audience was like the warm towel a pugilist gets to freshen up before the next bout in the ring.