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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicIndian history

Topic: Indian history

India wasn’t richer under Muslim, British rule than it was under Hindu kings

Fine to decry political violence or politically oppose the present Indian govt. But in his blog Swaminomics, Swaminathan Aiyer puts down the economic gains of Hindu rule.

Tripura was almost part of Pakistan. Congress, Communists came together to stop this

In ‘Northeast India’, Samrat Choudhury chronicles the history of the region and how it became a part of the ‘imagined nation’ of India.

Son of Dalit labourer clears UPSC, is now ‘IRS Sahab’. ‘Dreaming is a big thing for us’

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

‘India’s only nationalist historian’ — ASI’s go-to curator was a card-carrying communist

Kapil Kumar believes that Bhagat Singh was not a Leftist, Ambedkar was not involved in the freedom movement and Savarkar hasn’t been given due credit.

What if India had 75 states? Demands for redrawing state lines call for a permanent SRC

The creation of a permanent States Reorganisation Commission may open a can of worms but brushing these demands under the carpet is not a viable option.

Drive out Marxists, focus on Savarkar, Hindu kingdoms — ICHR’s walls now saffron. Literally

Exhibition on Hindu dynasties, book claiming democracy originated in India, dropping Muslims from martyr list, ICHR is rewriting history.

What we know as Indian Buddhism today was shaped by Central Asians and Greeks

What is acknowledged as ‘Indian’ now was developed across millennia by people who we don’t consider Indian today.

Congress-led Indian freedom struggle owes success to armed revolutionaries, says Amit Shah

Union Home minister said work needs to be done in field of written history to rid India of colonial mindset, asked students, teachers to identify 300 icons who made country great.

Chanakya’s existence, Ashoka’s politics—new book has stories and counter-stories on Mauryas

Devika Rangachari’s book straddles the famous Mauryan empire, bookended by the most popular Mauryans: Chandragupta Maurya and Ashoka.

Battle over history just got a giant new classroom in India—YouTube

In the age of rebuilding Ram Temple at Ayodhya, history is now everybody’s business—not just of elite scholars like Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.