From Dr Ambedkar's 'Pakistan or Partition of India, 1945'
& Diwan Nair's 'Moplah Rebellion, 1921'
2/ MALABAR district (extending from North to South along the coast) in British times considered of the following Taluks
Chirakkal
Kottayam
Kurumbranad
WYNAD
Calicut
Ernad
Walluvanad
Ponnani
Palghat
British Cochin
From Sitaram Goel's 'Genesis & growth of Nehruism', Vol 1, 1993
2/ Why does Nehruism continue to survive despite its obvious failures on several fronts?
Why does India's intellectual elite refuse to discuss Nehruism in some depth & evolve another ideology; which is more in tune with the social, cultural & political needs of an ancient people?
Dec 19, 2018 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
@TrueIndology, @vikramsampath 1/ HOW THE LEFTIST HISTORIANS OF JNU DISTORTED INDIAN HISTORY, IN THE 1970's ?
From Vikram Sampath's talk in Managalore Lit Fest, Nov'18
2/ HISTORY OF INDIAN IS ESSENTIALLY A HISTORY OF CASTE DISCRIMINATION.
The focus was on forces of exclusion, rather than on elements of inclusion.
For example, Bhakti movement is described as an act of 'low caste rebellion'. Its spiritual aspects have deliberately been ignored.
Aug 24, 2018 • 41 tweets • 7 min read
1/n A retelling of Shri Sitaram Goel's essay on Macaulayism ibtl.in/news/exclusive…2/n The term derives from Thomas Babington Macaulay, a member of the Governor General’s Council in the 1830s. Earlier, the British Government of India had completed a survey of the indigenous system of education in the Presidencies of Bengal, Bombay and Madras.
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