The Partition of India
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Gandhi on Hitler
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"Hitler is not a bad man" - allegedly Gandhi wrote this; the earliest reference that I can find to it dates to 1960: The e...
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Liaquat Ali Khan, July 9, 1946
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This following is from The Transfer of Power 1942-7, Volume VIII, a footnote in #16 (#16 is about Jawaharlal Nehru's July 10th press co...
Friday, June 30, 2017
Nehru's Tryst With Destiny Speech
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"Tryst With Destiny" is the famous speech given by Jawaharlal Nehru given to the Indian Constituent Assembly in the Indian Parli...
Monday, June 26, 2017
Coming to terms with the Partition
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Was the Partition of India avoidable? Of course it was! One simple course of action to avoid Partition would have been for all the non-...
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Nehru's press conference, July 10, 1946
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From the Annual Register, 1946, and The Transfer of Power 1942-7, Volume VIII, #16. {The changes to the Annual Register account derived fr...
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Saturday, June 10, 2017
Rashtrapita
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"Rashtrapita" or "Rashtra pita" translates to "Father of the Nation". Somewhere along his career, Mahatma ...
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Confronting each other in every village
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The Indian nationalists would not participate in World War II merely to perpetuate British rule over India. Edward John Thompson (1886-1...
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