जौहर-शाका: जब दुश्मन दहलीज पर हो
राजपूत राज्य के किले के द्वार तक जब दुश्मन पहुँच गया हो, किले के अन्दर रसद खत्म हो More...
Padmavat: Jauhar, Rights, Liberty and Values
In a recent article by Swara Bhaskar “At The End of Your Magnum Opus… I Felt Reduced to a Vagina – Only”, she criticizes the act of Jauhar and terms it disgraceful and against women rights. She casts doubt More...
Sati: Re-examining the Historical Evidence from 1900BCE to 1900CE
[contextly_sidebar id=”GnN0AGXJ2EVZMovhWu4XYV84TjQvXvBe”] Sati is a practice of self-immolation of a widow either on her husband’s pyre or separately after her husband’s death. Polemics against Hinduism More...
Revisiting Sati: Understanding the practice from a Dharmic perspective
[contextly_sidebar id=”acWzuURyvfuWPjeDVITpj3Oj8fUD7s0M”] Sati or “Widow-burning” as it is pejoratively called in the Colonial and Post-Colonial media and literature, has remained one of the most More...
The Battle over Historical Narratives of Chittor
[contextly_sidebar id=”mDZQshST3qurb4vgpvo05XOoITOXaxXs”] Apparently it has become become utterly “regressive”, “backward”, and “reactionary” to be proud of narrating a version of history More...
Jauhar-Shaka: When The Enemy Was At The Gate
[contextly_sidebar id=”Dy1qOa5oqIvbLXjcVsEjmX0JuG4SeCq2″] When the enemy was at the fort gates, when rations ran out, and when defeat was certain, Rajput kingdoms, especially in northwestern India followed More...