Indian Freedom Struggle
On 24 December 1921, the pre-independence Indian National Congress met at Ahmedabad for a discussion on the Congress Subjects Committee and passed five or six resolutions. This was truly a watershed moment both in the history of the INC and that of Bharatavarsha. It officially appointed Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi the
Indian Freedom Struggle
In this Series Part 1: UNMASKING THE MAHATMAHOOD OF GANDHI: R.C. MAJUMDAR’S FRANK ASSESSMENT OF MOHANDAS GANDHI Part 2: INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE WAS SECONDARY TO MOHANDAS GANDHI: R.C. MAJUMDAR UNMASKS GANDHI Years before R.C. Majumdar wrote his classic and authoritative History of the Freedom Movement in
Indian Freedom Struggle
In the previous part discussing R.C. Majumdar’s frank and objective critique of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, we had seen how Majumdar showed, using Gandhi’s own words, that Satyagraha had no fair role in India’s struggle for freedom. In the present episode, we present a continuation of the
Indian Freedom Struggle
We’ve seen how extraordinarily accurate Sitaram Goel was in his assessment of Jawaharlal Nehru whom he characterized as “a bloated Brown Sahib” and “the combined embodiment of all the imperialist ideologies Islam, Christianity, White Man’s Burden, and Communism.” We had paused the previous part of this series with
Indian Freedom Struggle
We have briefly introduced the invaluable contributions of Sitaram Goel, one of the strongest voices in the post-Independence era of India speaking up for and defending Sanatana Dharma, and at the same time, offering sledgehammer-like blows to the combined forces of the residues of imperialism that had so horribly wrecked