1977 in UP: The Janata Wave That Swept the Heartland
Eighty five seats to zero: the prisons' coalition, Raj Narain's revenge in Rae Bareli, Ram Naresh Yadav's chief ministership, and the watermarks that never receded.
Read MoreAmbedkar and Gandhi: The Argument India Inherited
The reformer who wanted Hinduism to deserve the untouchables and the emancipator who declined to wait: the quarrel the Constitution holds in permanent tension.
Read MoreThe Emergency in Uttar Pradesh: Sterilisation, Sanjay Gandhi, and Fear
The Allahabad verdict, the compliant secretariat, the quota raj of the camps, and the Muzaffarnagar firing: the heartland's twenty one months, documented.
Read MoreThe Communal Award and the Poona Pact: The Fast and the Signature
A schedule from London, a fast unto death at Yeravda, and a signature extracted against the clock: the Poona Pact enlarged the seats and left the argument open.
Read MoreRae Bareli and Amethi: The Family Boroughs of Indian Politics
Feroze's seat, Indira's defeat by Raj Narain, two assassinated members, the Irani upset, and the 2024 reclamations: the dynasty's home ranges, argued both ways.
Read MoreThe Round Table Conferences: Three Winters in London
Princes, minorities and one man in a shawl at St James's Palace: three winters that wrote no constitution and fixed the architecture of everything to 1947.
Read MoreThe 1967 Upheaval: When UP Got Its First Non Congress Government
The count that broke the coronation: Lohia's formula, Charan Singh's crossing, the SVD experiment, and the churn that taught UP governments could fall.
Read MoreThe Gandhi Irwin Pact: Truce of the Equals
Illegal salt stirred into the Viceroy's tea, Churchill's nausea at the palace steps, and a truce whose clauses died young while its precedent proved fireproof.
Read MoreCharan Singh: The Jat Peasant Leader Who Broke the Congress
From Noorpur's tenancy to the Nagpur defiance of Nehru, the 1967 walkout, and the prime ministership that never faced parliament: the peasant's own politician.
Read MoreDharasana 1930: The Salt Raid the World Could Not Look Away From
Column after column walked unresisting into the lathis while a wire reporter counted the fallen, and the empire's moral account closed in a morning.
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