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Dec 24 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
ANNOUNCEMENT 🧵 from Three Essays Collective!

Paperback reprints of The Present in Delhi's Pasts by Sunil Kumar are now available in India!

An essential book in any serious reading list on the history of Delhi.

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Dec 25
There is no such thing as a BJP moderate and short-sighted media must see that sooner than later.

A quick thread 🧵 why: Image
Moderate politicians never really existed in the BJP, nor did they in its predecessor, the Jana Sangh, or even the Hindu Mahasabha as a matter of fact - as we shall see.
In the 1940s and 50s, most RW moderates were in the Congress, which formed the post-colonial status-quo, & a large chunk of the Congress Right was in agreement with the Hindu Mahasabha on matters such as communal issues, Hindu Code Bill, cow protection and Hindi.
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Dec 6
Things that changed in 🇮🇳 w Ram Janmabhoomi Movt/#Ayodhya/#BabriMasjid Demolition, a thread 🧵:

1. Daily, yearlong RW propaganda from the 80s onwards finally made most Hindu school kids esp in Hindi belt communal. 90s saw an increase in slurs & discrimination against Muslim kids
2. Post Kargil War, post-Godhra and pogrom, the victim community was blamed simply for their identity and targetting in all spheres of life escalated further.
3. Interfaith couples became unsafe on a larger scale than ever before.
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Dec 6
Brief reading list thread 🧵 on Ayodhya/Ram Janmabhoomi Movt and Babri Masjid demolition + communal contexts. A lil offbeat:

One of the greatest post-Ayodhya Hindi poetry collections, and of all time.

दस बरस: हिंदी कविता अयोध्या के बाद, Ed by Asad Zaidi, 2 vols, from 2002. ImageImage
Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics

By Radhika Desai

[Published by us, includes a chapter on Gujarat as well]

amzn.eu/d/hc8prqc ImageImage
The Demolition and the Verdict: Ayodhya and the Project to Reconfigure India

By @NilanjanUdwin Image
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Dec 4
ANNOUNCEMENT🧵 from Three Essays Collective!

Paperback reprints are now available in India for -

Opium City: The Making of Early Victorian Bombay

By Amar Farooqui

🛒: amzn.eu/d/1XacUnY Image
Opium City: The Making of Early Victorian Bombay

By Amar Farooqui

Indian paperback edition price Rs.500/-
amzn.eu/d/1XacUnY
Global print editions and Kindle edition already available here:

amazon.in/dp/B0B258R3PB?…
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Nov 22
Wow I'm a UC.

Dude must be a social scientist..lemme check...oops 🤡
Data shows that Ashraf Muslims are at the economic lvl of Hindu OBCs. That's all i said.
Why aren't Ashrafs doing better than Hindu OBCs economically & in terms of representation?

Social discrimination.

& One can acknowledge that fact while also admitting discrimination against pasmanda+dalit Muslims, who face disc from both Ms&Hs & are even worse off economically
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Nov 22
Probably bait, but nvm:

Maybe read the Sachar Committee Report & understand that Muslims don't "dominate" the informal sector (& now gig economy),

but that they're pushed to the fringes of livelihood making (esp post-Partition) & you're trying to push them out of even that?
minorityaffairs.gov.in/reports/sachar…
Published by yours truly.
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