Adrija Roychowdhury

To the average Indian, Shivaji has over the years come to represent everything that is glorious and fearless about his past.

The origins of the EIC lay in certain developments in seventeenth century England that acted as a catalyst for increasing curiosity in the East.

To read the two epics as a work of religion is unwarranted and nothing but politically motivated.

The judgment stated that the only way to determine support enjoyed by a particular state government would be by means of a floor test.

The sinking of the Ghazi in mysterious circumstances has been a contentious issue between India and Pakistan ever since.

Dara Shikoh was the brother of Aurangazeb and was killed by the latter.

Soon after the riots, the Samajwadi Party’s government was under severe attack for not only poor management of the situation but also for having instigated the violence.

Personalities like Anarkarli and Jodha Bai are also similar cases of fictional accounts becoming part of popular historical understanding.

A day after his assassination, Mahatma Gandhi featured across the front page of practically every major newspaper of the world as the symbol of loss that India would find hard to recover from.

The legacy left behind by Bose in independent India was a source of constant worry to an American government stuck in cold war with communist USSR .

The earliest evidence of Jallikattu or bull taming can be found in ancient Indian cave paintings and seal iconography.