“Astonishing thought,” Nehru wrote in The Discovery of India about India’s common civilisational continuity of nearly six thousand years, about this multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multicultural ...

When a number of eminent historians including Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib termed the National Book Trust (NBT) chairman’s decision to revoke the orders to get “Sampradayikta:”, the Hindi version of ...

The understanding of secularism in India has changed over time with its politics and politicians. While communalism has always been the antithesis of secularism, new strands of communal identity ...

One of the peculiarities of Indian political debate is that everyone claims to be secular while accusing others of not being so. Secularism’s hegemony as an idea was made clear by L.K. Advani, when he ...