A Nineteenth Century Prehistory of Pakistan
Hostile Attitude of the Mahommedans…Pronounced and Apparent In the year 1885, certain politically minded upper middle class urban professionals, led by an Irish civil servant called Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912), More...
Book Review: Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism by Jakob De Roover
Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism (Religion and Democracy), Jakob De Roover, 296 Pages, Oxford University Press (14 September 2015). Two years ago, on one fine afternoon, I happened to run into a congregation More...
Statement on the Draft Uniform Civil Code for the Indian Citizen
Editor’s note: Here is the statement released by Tufail Ahmad, renowned journalist and political commentator on the Draft Uniform Civil Code/Universal Bill of Rights for the Indian Citizen jointly prepared by More...
Upholding Secularism, Pluralism and Free Speech: A JNU Manual
The English media is again on a hysterical overdrive about freedom under threat and supposedly ‘rising intolerance’ in India. In this cabal, they have been enthusiastically joined by the legions of liberal warriors More...
Journalism of Courage or Journalism of Communalism?
This was sent in by IndiaFacts reader, Newspaper Reader who can be followed on Twitter @readernewspaper. The Indian Express published a report titled ‘Why kin of Muslim half of Gujarat’s martyr duo turned More...
The truth behind Church attacks in India: an Interview
That both the national and the international media have raised a resounding noise over church attacks in India–notably in Delhi–is now old news. However, to those who have been keenly following the More...
Prominent Indian Muslim leaders speak about Hindus
This is a compilation of some of the key points that prominent Indian Muslims leaders have spoken about Hindus. IndiaFacts thanks its reader and contributor, D.C. Nath for sending us this list. -1- Hindus shouldn’t More...
Is Ashutosh Varshney communal?
Assertion Writing in a column in the Indian Express on 14 April 2014, Brown University Professor Ashutosh Varshney claims that If Muslims vote en bloc, there is still a chance that they can frustrate Modi’s More...
Muslims hold Delhi to ransom
Over 25,000 Muslims from different parts of Uttar Pradesh decide to storm into New Delhi to stake a claim on a disputed piece of land—and cause chaos in the eastern and central parts of the city as also in the More...
A G Noorani calls Sardar Patel a Communalist
Assertion: The latest cover story of Frontline is a lengthy essay by A.G. Noorani that purports to prove that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a communalist based on a “documented record.” As part of More...