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History Writing at Risk
Latest update : 28 April 2023.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past" — George Orwell’s 1984
Writing History of India and dangers from the far right: Web resources
- See this Section’s Archived Page - From June 1996 - August 2008
- The Future of The Indian Past by Romila Thapar
- See also the 2003 SACW Alert In Defence of the Indian Historian of Romila Thapar
cartoon by Nala Ponnappa
Articles in this section
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India: Deleting Mughal history - Weaponising the past, hurting students | Anshu Saluja
27 April 2023 -
India: Text of Public statement of historians on changes in school History textbooks of the NCERT
7 April 2023 -
Rewriting India’s History Through School Textbooks | Seema Chishti
10 March 2023 -
Skewed historical demography - On the politics of invented ‘Genocide’ in India | Sanjay Subrahmanyam
26 February 2023 -
Twisting of historical facts — Editorial, The Telegraph (Feb 3, 2023)
16 February 2023 -
India: Mughal Gardens to Amrit Udyan - Lost in the renaming is a sense of Delhi’s history | Narayani Gupta
31 January 2023 -
Our History, Their History or Whose History? | Lecture by Prof Romila Thapar (Jan 14, 2023)
15 January 2023 -
Past is purity: Editorial on BJP’s shot at rewriting history | The Telegraph, December 29, 2022
30 December 2022 -
India: Everything That’s Wrong With Rewriting History Under Hindutva Nationalism | Shashi Tharoor (Outlook, June 22, 2022)
28 June 2022 -
India: BJP’s fascination for rewriting history - Editorial, The Telegraph (June 14, 2022)
15 June 2022
A Report on the Infrastructure of Hindutva Influence Peddling, Mobilizing and Fund Raising in the US, 2014-2021 | May 2022
India: Trouble over Farm Bills - Massive Peasant Protest at the Gates of Delhi - Select Reports and Statements | Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
The Politics of COVID-19 pandemic - select readings & resources [9 March 2020 on]
Sustainable Security Index 2020 - Oxford Research Group
India: Aug 2019 Clampdown in Kashmir & supression of Article 370 | Select Statements / Commentary / updates
India and Pakistan: Step Back from the Brink - Calls by Citizens for Restraint - Feb-March 2019
South Asia Loses a Voice of Sanity - Asma Jahangir (1952-2018)
India: Bhima Koregaon Crackdown on Activists - reports, commentary and public statements
Paradise Papers: Secrets of the Global Elite
What You Should Know About Megaprojects by Bent Flyvbjerg (2014)
Indian Journalist Gauri Lankesh Assassinated in Bangalore (sept 2017) - Statements by citizen's groups
Jeni Whalan, "Dealing with Disgrace: Addressing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping. (International Peace Institute, August 2017)
Remembering Peter Waterman (1936-2017)
India: Narendra Modi's Report Card in 2018
Citizens'Report on 3rd Year of the NDA Government-2017: Promises & Reality
The Panama Papers on the shadowy offshore industry - ICIJ
The Brexit working class counter-revolution
After the Charlie Hebdo Massacre, Support those Fighting the Religious-Right: Statement by concerned citizens
Bangladesh: Statement of Concern regarding Tribunal's Contempt Judgment on David Bergman
Pakistan: The 16 Dec 2014 Massacre in a Peshawar school - statements from human rights groups, media commentary and editorials
Fast Track to Troubling Times: 100 Days of Narendra Modi – A Counter Report
Hindu Nationalism in the United States: A Report on Nonprofit Groups [2014]
The Foreign Exchange of Hate: IDRF and the American Funding of Hindutva (2002, Sabrang Communications & Publishing Pvt. Ltd, India, and South Asia Citizens Web, France)
Report of Jeevan Lal Kapur Commission of Inquiry in to Conspiracy to Murder Mahatma Gandhi (Vol 1 and Vol 2)
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