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Holi wasn’t always about Holika burning. Medieval India called it festival of Kama
The ‘eastern’ tradition of Holika-burning moved deeper into the Gangetic Plains. Gaudiya Vaishnavism, from Bengal, took root ...
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Rise and fall of an empire | Anirudh Kanisetti's book on the Cholas
The Cholas stand out amongst numerous dynasties who jostle for our attention in ancient and medieval India. Starting from ...
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Aurangzeb, ‘Chhava’ and Selective Historiography
The communal narrative today sees kings, Hindu and Muslim, in the light of their religion and not as rulers fighting for ...
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Was sati a British myth about India? Medieval memorial stones hold the truth
Last week, amid major political controversies, a tech CEO and an author of mythological fiction caused a furore about sati, the practice of widow-burning in medieval India. This worked up a storm on ...
Muslim Mirror6d
Aurangzeb, Chhava Movie, and the politics of selective historiography
By Ram Puniyani As Communal hate is on the rise through the use of History on political battle grounds, new dimensions are ...
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Chhaava, Aurangzeb and Communal Historiography
The film Chhaava selectively picks up few incidents from Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj’s life and projects the cruel and anti ...
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The ‘rediscovery’ of Sangam literature and how it became a source of Tamil history and archaeology
But, he suggests that the ‘dramatisation’ of the efforts of modern scholars and editors like Pillai and Iyer has often overlooked the fact that these texts had been anthologised and re-anthologised in ...
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Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Temple
During the medieval period, it was a key center of Vaishnavism ... The earliest inscription, from 1087 CE, belongs to Chola king Kulottunga I. The temple flourished under the Later Cholas ...