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Jawaharlal Nehru

The Churchill Paradox

Zareer Masani

Historians cannot square the wartime British prime minister’s fascination for India with his pessimism about its independent future

In Praise of the Hindu Common Sense

The unravelling of secular intellectualism, from Kashmir to Ayodhya

Withering Away

The redundancy of the Dynasty and the trial of the Nehruvian legacy

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A rejoinder to asymmetric secularism

Chronicle of My Death Foretold

In defence of dignity in departure

India as a ‘soft state’

The citizens of Nehruvian and post-Nehruvian India often attempted to justify their vulnerability by claiming to be preoccupied with loftier things

One Vote for One Nation That Is Bharat

By the way, were Indira and Nehru anti-federal because they held all elections on a single day?

The Lost Dominion

The forgotten United Bengal proposal and its lingering aftertaste

An Exceptional Tryst

India has reinvented both patriotism and nationalism by infusing them with the republican spirit

A Constitutional Promise

Defenders of the idea of a Uniform Civil Code had hoped it would become a reality but the divisions seen in the Constituent Assembly took a turn for the worse in subsequent decades

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