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Oct 29 • 14 tweets • 23 min read
Of late, I have been tweeting threads on issues like #history & on #Maharashtra & #Mumbai. This is a compilation of some threads over the month

On a little-known attempt by an inebriated #British policeman to kill #MahatmaGandhi in #Pune


#NathuramGodse
The #ParvatiSatyagraha launched by Ambedkarites and reformist activities seeking that #Dalits be allowed to enter the Parvati temple in #Pune



#DrBabasahebAmbedkar #DrAmbedkar #DalitMovement #history
How #Dussehra was once a rallying point for the Swadeshi movement. It was on this day in 1905 that #VinayakDamodarSavarkar organised a massive bonfire of imported clothes


#Savarkar #LokmanyaTilak #Tilak #Pune #Maharashtra #swadeshi #Gandhi #MahatmaGandhi
How a daredevil revolutionary #DurgadeviVohra shot at & injured a British policeman outside the Lamington Road police station in #Mumbai.



#BhagatSingh #Sukhdev #Rajguru #Savarkar #Maharashtra #history
On a unique & unusual king #BalasahebPantpratinidhi, who handed over power to his people before independence & whose initiatives to reform convicts inspired V.Shantaram's magnum opus



#films #movies #history #Maharashtra
The revolutionary, anti-British past of saints like #SaiBaba of #Shirdi & #JangliMaharaj of #Pune & how holy men of that time aided the anti-colonial struggle.



#history #Maharashtra #India #saints
The rich & muscular tradition of #wrestling in #Pune.



#sports #kushti #Maharashtra #LokmanyaTilak #MahatmaPhule #caste #wrestlers
The #history of animosity between the #ShivSena & the #Communists in #Mumbai & why the warm ties of late between the two parties are significant.



#BalasahebThackeray #UddhavThackeray #AadityaThackeray #KrishnaDesai
The persistence of caste has prevented the creation of a larger class-consciousness among the workers. An incident from the life of #DrAmbedkar illustrates this.



#Dalitmovement #DrBabasahebAmbedkar #Communists #CPI
#Marathi #sangeetnataks (musical dramas) began with the burning of dhoop (loban/ incense). This tradition has links with a holy man in #Pune



#Pune #Maharashtra #drama #theatre
In an era when it was anathema for women to act in dramas, Narayan Rajhans aka #Balgandharva essayed this roles with elan. This thespian inspired many other 'Gandharvas'



#Maharashtra #Mumbai #Pune #history #drama #theatre
One name, many symbols. The history of the #ShivSena & its election symbols over the decades.



#BalThackeray #UddhavThackeray #RajThackeray #Mumbai #Maharashtra
*reformist activists
A slightly older thread on the enigmatic man who was known as Sadashiv Nilkanth Joshi aka #RaosahebPeshwe, Bhausaheb Limaye, Ganesh Keshav Limaye, Bhausaheb Kashinath Khasgiwale


#history #Pune #Maharashtra #LokmanyaTilak #Tilak

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Oct 30
30 October 1883 marks the death anniversary of #SwamiDayanandSaraswati. This is a thread on the links between the #AryaSamaj & the #HinduMahasabha & the #RSS. It will also explain how the Samaj contributed to the growth of the #Sangh

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The #AryaSamaj was founded on 10 April 1875 at Bombay (#Mumbai) by Swami #DayanandSaraswati. This monotheistic order laid stress on the values laid down in the #Vedas & was against idol worship.
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Bhawanrao 'Balasaheb' Pantpratinidhi (1868-1951) who ruled Aundh in #Maharashtra was an unusual king. His work at reforming criminals & convicts inspired V.Shantaram's acclaimed ‘Do Aankhen Barah Haath’ (1957). Balasaheb was born on 24 October 1868
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Unlike rulers who tried to cling to power even when the end of British rule was evident, #BalasahebPantpratinidhi handed over the reins of the state to the people much earlier in an experiment inspired by #MahatmaGandhi. He also helped freedom fighters & revolutionaries.
In a sense, #BalasahebPantpratinidhi was among the reformist kings who tried to birth welfare states in colonial India. He was also associated with one of the most popular forms of exercises—the suryanamaskars.
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Oct 22
What is common between saints like Sai Baba of #Shirdi, Jangli Maharaj & Bidkar Maharaj (#Pune), Vidyanand Saraswati (Ahmednagar) & Swami Samartha of #Akkalkot? They may have had links with revolutionaries trying to overthrow #British rule over #India
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Oct 21
This is a thread on the tradition of #wrestling in #Pune. The city was once known as a centre of wrestling. Even in those conservative times, these akhadas or wrestling schools acted as melting pots.
#sports #Maharashtra #Marathi #caste
The vastads or wrestling coaches included both, non-Brahmins & Brahmins. Their students too cut across communities.
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Oct 4
#ShivSena president #UddhavThackeray & #Maharashtra CM #EknathShinde have organised a show of strength on #Dusseshra. But, over 100 years ago, the festival was used to protest against the British & popularise swadeshi
#Savarkar #Tilak #Bengal #Dussehra2022 #Dashera #Maharashtra ImageImageImage
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#Dussehra #Dussehra2022 #Dasara #Dasara2022 #LokmanyaTilak #VDSavarkar #Savarkar #swadeshi
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This thread is on a little-known attempt by a British police officer to assassinate #MahatmaGandhi at #Pune in 1942 & some previous bids on #Gandhiji's life.

#MKGandhi #GandhiJayanti #MahatmaGandhiAmarRahe #Gandhi #GandhiJayanti #gandhijayanthi #GandhiJayanti2022
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