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Dispatches from History

Aresh Shirali

The lesser known sites of pivotal relevance to our national experience

The Other Mutiny: 1946 Naval Rebellion

Spare a thought for the heroes of the 1946 naval rebellion

Partition: Lives Apart

Three contrarian Partition stories: a Punjabi Muslim, a Frontier Pathan, and a sensationalist

Was Partition Inevitable?

It was about human frailty: stubbornness, inexperience and ambition

Reclaiming Sivaganga

Memories of the first resistance

The Enigma of Aligarh

Charge him with separatism or uphold him as a visionary, Syed Ahmad Khan has left us plenty to puzzle out

Throwing out Secular Nehru with the Socialist Bathwater

The end of an idea that was Indian politics’ greatest contradiction

The Story of Two Maidans

The grounds beneath freedom’s feet

Can the Right Be Liberal?

A moment of reckoning in Indian politics

The Diaries of Eliamma Mathen: Homemaker as Intimate Historian

The diaries of Eliamma Mathen capture with rare sensitivity the political intrigue and skullduggery in the former princely state of Travancore

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