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The Young Nehru and the Fear of the Unknown
The Young Nehru and the Fear of the Unknown Remembering Nehru’s First Arrest Before Jawaharlal Nehru became a towering figure of independent India, he was also a young political worker learning, with nervous excitement and gradual endurance, what imprisonment under colonial rule actually meant. This small piece revisits Nehru’s first arrest on 6 December 1921,…
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Did Bakhtiyar Khalji Destroy Nalanda University?
Did Bakhtiyar Khalji Destroy Nalanda University? A History of Many Interpretations Did Bakhtiyar Khalji destroy Nalanda University? The answer may appear simple, but history is often more complicated than public memory. Historians frequently distinguish between three things: the event itself, how later people wrote about it, and how later generations remembered it. In trying…
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