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Topic: Medieval India

Yogi Adityanath isn’t the first. Shaivite monks have been in politics for 1,000 years

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
Like their Buddhist and Jain predecessors, medieval Shaivite monasteries used their royal connections to defeat rivals and accumulate followers.

Jaiswals, Oswals, Shahs—Gujarat’s trading families once wielded more power than medieval courts

Anirudh Kanisetti -
Experts say some Oswal, Jaiswal, and Agrawal merchants still claim Kshatriya origin.

India’s Buddhist nuns you don’t hear about: Landladies, loan sharks, merchants

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
Voices of Buddhist women have been lost to us. But new research reveals they had brilliant commercial and religious minds, and shaped the financial fortunes of the Buddhist sangha.

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

+TFP Vandana Menon -
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.

Some Hindus even praised Khilji in Sanskrit texts — Medieval India’s complex power games

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
When Sanskrit-speaking elites were not well-treated, Muslim kings were decried as mlecchas, accused of killing cows and persecuting Brahmins.

‘Indians never invaded’ is a myth. Guptas, Cholas, Lalitaditya Muktapida were conquerors

Anirudh Kanisetti -
Rashtrakutas raided the Himalayas, Tamil Nadu; the Cholas Bengal, Indonesia; Kashmiris Punjab, Afghanistan, and Xinjiang. Medieval Indians had a big appetite for conquests.

‘Historic hurt’ is a modern phrase. Muslims were integral to South Indian gods

Anirudh Kanisetti -
The legends of Vavar and other South Indian gods venerated by both Hindus and Muslims show that the Deccan's religious history in the region is far more complex.

South India challenges the notions of medieval Islam—lessons from Deccan history

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
It is absurd to replace modern mosques with temples—as absurd as demanding Tamilians pay reparations to Karnataka because the Cholas destroyed Kalyana in 1047.

Food fights not new to India. Medieval texts show mud-slinging among Jains, Buddhists, Hindus

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
In the medieval period, meat was being eaten by most, irrespective of religion. And yet religious leaders were criticising others for doing so.

Medieval NRIs: How Indian monks rewrote Buddhism in China

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
When we think of India’s influence on the world, it's important to recognise individuals who weren't kings — Buddhist monks can shed stereotypes.
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Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

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If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

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Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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