Manu Smriti: locating dharma and adharma in the light of modernity

The Manu Smriti, the ancient treatise on dharma has been the subject of enormous traditional pre-modern veneration and immense modernist revulsion. The more than 2000-year-old text whose antiquity rivals the oldest More...

Alauddin Khilji and Padmavati: just who is afraid of History?

Several “liberal” columnists have expressed anguish at the recent protests against the director of the upcoming controversial film ‘Padmavati’, which is based on the historical saga involving the characters More...

Aurangzeb as a ‘tolerant tyrant’: the case against ‘secular’ historiography

Aurangzeb was the last of the ‘great’ Mughals whose policies set into motion those forces, which would pave the way for the disintegration of the empire. Until the mid-20th century, there was scholarly consensus More...