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  1. Jatindra Nath Das (1904–1929)
    The young Dadhichi who fasted 63 days for India’s dignity.

    His death in Lahore Jail turned a hunger strike into a movement—uniting moderates and revolutionaries against colonial injustice.

    For UPSC: GS1 (Freedom Struggle) + GS4 (Ethics of Sacrifice & Integrity).

    #EnliteIAS #JatindraNathDas #FreedomStruggle #GS1 #Ethics #RevolutionaryMovement #UPSCPrep #IASAspirants

  2. Why Not to Call the Constitution Colonial

    With the BJP pursuing its Hindu supremacist nativist ideology by decolonising law codes, this book has got alarm bells ringing in progressive circles invested in the secular, liberal and egalitarian values of Indian constitutionalism. Moiz Tundawala reviews Arghya Sengupta’s 'The Colonial Constitution'.

    #BookReview #ArghyaSengupta #IndianConstitution #colonialism #decolonisation #hindutva #history #FreedomStruggle #histodon #books #bookstodon #india

    nls.ac.in/blog/why-not-to-call

  3. Obituary: When Sankaraiah said, ‘We fought for freedom, not pension’

    He sacrificed his degree for the freedom struggle and was denied an honorary doctorate just before his death because the Governor refused to sign the order.

    #TamilNadu #NSankaraiah #CPIM #FreedomStruggle #keezhvenmani #CasteViolence #RNRavi #governors #india

    thefederal.com/category/obitua

  4. N. Sankaraiah, one of the founding members of CPI(M), no more

    The freedom fighter and veteran Marxist leader, who had a career in politics that spanned over 75 years, died at a private hospital in Chennai, aged 101.

    #TamilNadu #chennai #NSankaraiah #CPIM #FreedomStruggle #history #histodon #india

    thehindu.com/news/national/tam

  5. Remembering Maulana Abul Kalam Azad: A Scholar, Patriot and Builder of Modern India

    Today, November 11, marks the 135th birth anniversary of India's first education minister. The Maulana played a crucial role in bringing Indian Muslims out of their self-imposed political indifference to cooperate with their Hindu brethren in the task of freeing the country from foreign rule.

    #MaulanaAzad #history #histodon #FreedomStruggle #IndianHistory #muslims #IndianMuslims #hindutva #india

    thewire.in/history/remembering

  6. The BJP May End up Tying Itself in Knots By Attacking Udhayanidhi Stalin

    The concept of sanatana dharma was given shape by the Hindu orthodoxy in the 19th century as a movement against reformist organisations like the Arya Samaj and Brahmo Samaj, which questioned regressive practices such as sati and child marriage.

    thewire.in/politics/bjp-attack

    #UdayanidhiStalin #hinduism #inequality #casteism #CasteDiscrimination #DMK #TamilNadu #hindutva #AmitMalviya #AmitShah #KAnnamalai #RSS #FreedomStruggle #BJP #brahminism #caste #india

  7. The man who coined the slogan ‘Quit India’: Remembering Yusuf Meherally

    The socialist freedom fighter was Mumbai’s mayor when the Congress intensified the freedom movement 75 years ago on this day.

    #FreedomStruggle #YusufMeherally #QuitIndiaMovement #history #india

    scroll.in/article/846450/who-c

  8. Book review: Rahul Ranjan's 'Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India'

    While we predominantly consume the image of Birsa Munda as an anti-colonial figure and in very etatised and hinduised forms, Rahul Ranjan’s Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India forcefully intervenes to bring out the voices of the subaltern. An intervention in ethnohistory and politics of indigenous groups, the book shows how memory is significant in the life and struggles of indigenous groups in the state of Jharkhand.

    #BookReview #BirsaMunda #RahulRanjan #biography #history #FreedomStruggle #jharkhand #SubalternStudies #adivasis #ethnography #india #books #bookstodon

    journals.sagepub.com/eprint/EJ

  9. NCERT textbooks: Why some Indian scholars are disowning books they wrote

    The academics said they objected to the "innumerable and irrational cuts and large deletions" as they failed to see "any pedagogic rationale" behind the changes.

    #NCERT #textbooks #education #children #history #GujaratPogrom #FreedomStruggle #mughals #SuhasPalshikar #YogendraYadav #NEP #BJP #hindutva #islamophobia #india

    bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-

  10. ‘The Greatness of Tipu Sultan’

    The BJP’s textbook 'tukde tukde gang' that brought strife to Karnataka for years over Tipu should read K R Malkani’s India First, writes P. Sainath.

    #karnataka #TipuSultan #FreedomStruggle #history #BJP #RSS #KRMalkani #hindutva #india #books #PSainath

    deccanherald.com/opinion/main-

  11. Maulana Azad reference omitted in NCERT textbook

    Authors of the revised Class 11 political science textbook have also deleted the fact that Jammu and Kashmir had acceded to India on the basis of a promise that the State would remain autonomous.

    #MaulanaAzad #NCERT #education #textbooks #propaganda #fascism #RSS #BJP #hindutva #history #FreedomStruggle #kashmir #islamophobia #india

    thehindu.com/news/national/del

  12. Savarkar praised and called himself ‘Veer’ in biography penned by himself

    Even in Maharashtra Savarkar has been a controversial personality with even the grandfather of Uddhav Thackeray accusing Savarkar of promoting falsehood and Brahminism.

    #savarkar #RSS #hindutva #brahminism #FreedomStruggle #brahmins #revisionism #history #MKgandhi #maharashtra #india

    nationalheraldindia.com/opinio

  13. Gurjar queens, Vokkaliga warriors: How BJP is inventing history for a new Hindutva caste politics

    Historians suggest that the heroes the BJP is invoking to allegedly attract castes either do not exist or their role is being exaggerated.

    #BJP #caste #CastePolitics #history #pseudohistory #FreedomStruggle #karnataka #TipuSultan #vokkaligas #gurjars #muslims #elections #hindutva #india

    scroll.in/article/1045746/gurj

  14. BJP propagates fiction as history: 'Uri and Nanje Gowda killed Tipu Sultan'

    Historians have long believed that Tipu was killed by the British during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1798-99. They call the BJP’s new version a sinister design.

    #TipuSultan #history #IndianHistory #BritishRule #karnataka #FreedomStruggle #BJP #RSS #pseudohistory #propaganda #hindutva #india

    thenewsminute.com/article/bjp-

  15. Rewriting India’s History Through School Textbooks

    Since the ideological BJP has come to power, a concerted effort has been made to distort the curriculum to promote a monocultural view of the country's past and present.

    #education #history #hindutva #BJP #RSS #mughals #savarkar #DalitMovement #FreedomStruggle #children #ShishuMandirs #saffronisation #radicalisation #muslims #christians #minorities #india

    newlinesmag.com/argument/rewri

  16. Hindu Mahasabha wants Savarkar's pictures to replace Gandhi's image on currency notes

    In an open letter to the Government of India, the Hindu Mahasabha also asked for renaming the road leading to the Parliament House after Savarkar.

    #savarkar #HinduMahasabha #RSS #MKGandhi #UnionGovt #money #currency #hindutva #BJP #HinduNationalism #FreedomStruggle #history #india

    deccanherald.com/national/nort

  17. @andrewstroehlein "...and the EU is expected to relaunch its human rights dialogue with China..." and "These bilateral meetings have been a recurring exercise in pointlessness for decades."

    Intimately related to this: #EU dialogues and the minor issue of occupied Tibet

    I recall reading a convincing magazine piece written around early 2000s by a #Tibetan exile about the #EuropeanUnion's — or specifically the EuropeanParliament's efforts in the 1970s and 1980s at convincing the Tibetan Government-in-exile (#TGIE) to give up struggle for free and *independent* #Tibet in favour of "#autonomy* under the #Chinese #CCP #dictatorship.

    The EU's efforts bore fruit and so-called "Middle Way" became TGIE's new policy. The Dalai Lama received the #Nobel Peace Prize in autumn 1989, only months after Tiananmen massacre.

    The Tibetans, quite justifiably, expected the EU to stand behind the TGIE's demand for the restoration of Tibetans' indigenous rights and freedoms in Tibet.

    What happened instead, now that the wee issue of *occupied* TIbet had been erased from the political map, was that European businesses beelined to ship what industrial base they could muster to the "People's Republic of #China. Business uber alles! #HandelOhneWandel!

    And Tibet? <crickets...>

    FWIW, it's a veritable dystopia. Has been since the PLA invaded in 1950.

    The writer of that article appeared somewhat bitter by this most unexpected of turns — the EU apparently losing the TGIE's phone number and the subsequent CCP-appeasement-through-trade policy.

    #history #prc #freedomstruggle #selfdetermination

  18. If Statues Could Speak: What Netaji and Sardar Patel Would Tell Narendra Modi

    "I christened Gandhi ‘father of the nation’; people of your persuasion finished him off. Indeed, one of them who venerates his assassin sits in parliament as one of your elected party members."

    #opinion #BadriRaina #history #Netaji #SubhasChandraBose #SardarPatel #MKGandhi #FreedomStruggle #INA #savarkar #godse #NarendraModi #modi #BJP #hindutva #india

    thewire.in/politics/netaji-sar

  19. Who gave the title ‘Mahatma’ to MK Gandhi? Certainly not the British

    The image of a letter from a book has been widely circulating on social media and on Whatsapp with the claim that it is the copy of the memorandum through which the British Raj officially recognized the title of ‘Mahatma’ assigned to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

    #FactCheck #AltNews #MKGandhi #history #FreedomStruggle #misinformation #BJP #RSS #trolls #india

    altnews.in/who-gave-the-title-

  20. @JanKooy @humanrightswatch

    This one's for all the Iranian people.

    You will be free again and it will be beautiful.

    Woman, Life, Freedom
    Jin, Jiyan, Azadî ژن، ژیان، ئازادی

    Shervin Hajipour - Baraye (full version with English lyrics) - YouTube
    youtube.com/watch?v=0th9_v-BbU

    #Iran #FreedomStruggle #solidarity #Persia #civilization #WomanLifeFreedom #MahsaAmini

  21. CW: Bookish Advent Day 5 (SFW) Tags: India Pakistan Partition, Generational, Historical Fiction, Not Your Heroes

    #bookishAdvent day 5
    The Women's Courtyard by Khadija Mastur
    #translated #historicalfiction , shows a completely different face of #India #FreedomStruggle . The everyday women, with tales of gone riches and glory and the inner #courtyard of their life. #familydrama , #insidepolitics . #Partition1947 @bookstodon