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Updated: December 20, 2020 08:51 IST Manan Ahmed Asif boldly tackles the question of present-day prejudices, whether Hindutva or Muslim majoritarianism in the sub-continent Share Article AAA Manan Ahmed Asif boldly tackles the question of present-day prejudices, whether Hindutva or Muslim majoritarianism in the sub-continent In the newly constituted Bihar assembly, MLA Akhtarul Iman said he would take his oath not with Hindustan, but with Bharat, as the Constitution mentions Bharat and not Hindustan. There was a minor commotion as it was clear that Iman wanted to underline that he was not a c...
Following Classical Economics Share Trending The Wealth of Nations, 1776), Jean-Baptiste Say ( A Treatise on Political Economy, 1803), James Mill ( Commerce Defended, 1808), David Ricardo ( Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, 1817), John Stuart Mill ( Principles of Political Economy, 1848) and Ludwig von Mises ( Human Action, 1949), would concur with this notion – the reduction of taxes increases revenue. Steven Kates explains how “Reductions in taxation have a different effect on economic outcomes and can be consistent with classical principles of generating economic grow...
Robert Clive of the East India Company at the siege of Arcot. | Ernest Wallcousins (1883-1976) [Public domain] Manan Ahmed Asif’s new book, “Across the subcontinent we now confront a crisis of the past, with an explicit understanding of difference as destiny… The majoritarian Sunni or Hindutva projects ask that we, as historians, consider them inevitable and immutable. Yet, this cannot stand… The history I have sketched here is a prompt to imagine ways forward that do not yield to the majoritarian present, that do not inherit the past as certainty, and do not ...
SCOTLAND SUPPLEMENT II - A joint oppressor Left nationalists are in thrall to a bogus history, argues Jack Conrad. Scotland was not subject to an English takeover with the 1707 Act of Union. Nor does Scotland suffer from English cultural imperialism Europe’s first nations had an embryonic existence, which for the sake of neatness is usually dated back to the 13th and 14th centuries. Here we have fertilisation, eg, Geoffrey Chaucer and his use of Middle English in works such as Tales of Caunterbury (1400). At the time the prestigious languages in England were Norman-French and Latin. Chauce...