The Ayodhya Movement: From Locked Gates to Rath Yatra
From the idols of 1949 and the locks of 1986 to the shila pujans and the chariot of 1990: the movement's construction, date by documented date.
Read MoreThe Congress Ministries 1937 to 1939: Rehearsal for the Republic
Twenty eight months of real reform under real constraints, an apprenticeship for 1947, and a communal bill that came due at Lahore.
Read MoreThe Elections of 1937: The Movement Learns to Count
Thirty million voters, seven provinces won, and a rival locked out: the count that crowned the Congress and set the League hunting for another nation.
Read MoreThe Mandal Moment in UP: How OBC Politics Redrew the Map
August 7, 1990: the report, the burning campuses, Indra Sawhney's frame, and the silent revolution that ended the upper caste century in one decade.
Read MoreThe Decline of Congress in UP: How a Hegemon Lost the Heartland
Eighty three seats to single digits: the hollow machine, the three departures of Brahmin, Muslim, and Dalit, and the last Congress chief minister of 1989.
Read MorePeshawar 1930: The Storytellers’ Street and the Soldiers Who Refused
A morning of firing into an unarmed crowd, and two platoons that would not shoot: Qissa Khwani gave the movement its martyrs and the empire its nightmare.
Read MoreHemvati Nandan Bahuguna: The Master Tactician of UP Politics
The Garhwali chanakya: the mill lines of Naini, the 1975 resignation, the serial crossings, and the Allahabad duel with a film star that closed an era.
Read MoreBadshah Khan and the Khudai Khidmatgars: The Nonviolent Army of the Frontier
Eighty thousand Pathans in brick red, sworn to serve and never strike: Badshah Khan's Servants of God confounded the empire's deepest categories.
Read MoreVP Singh: The Raja of Manda and His Two Revolutions
The dacoity war and a murdered brother, the raids and Bofors, and the August 1990 detonation: the raja who spent power on the powerless and kept the bill.
Read MoreThe Government of India Act 1935: The Constitution Nobody Wanted
Condemned by Congress, League and princes alike, the longest statute Parliament ever passed became the chassis of the 1937 ministries and the republic's largest quarry.
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