Nehru and Women

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The relation of Jwahar Lal Nehru with different women is subject of intense study among the scholars. There is a question which ask that was the decision of Nehru at any stage influenced by his relation with the women. The second angle is mainly morbid in nature but that attracts the attention of the gossip groups and third page writers. In India, the men women relation of the leading personality is not discussed openly. Here is the news which are related to above mentioned discussions. It interest the people of history as strongly as it can be with other groups.
The report has talked about mother Swaroop Rani, wife Kamala Nehru, daughter Indira, sisters Vijayalakshmi Pandit and Krishna Huteesingh and nieces Chandralekha, Nayantara and Rita and family friend Padmaja Naidu as well as between Indira Gandhi and Naidu, and finally Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten. Well apart from that, there are many other women who had been a focus of the study of historians.

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Writings of J. L. Nehru

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M. K. Gandhi: The Football Legend of India as per FIFA

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The motive of the news report as it appeared in Economic Times which can be checked HERE, is not fully apparent, but there are many interesting bits of facts about the life of Mahatama Gandhi in that report. The literature on Gandhi is now more about what a scholar would write about his understanding of term Gandhi. But in the news report there is a information that Gandhi had organized Football teams in South Africa. He has been mentioned in FIFA website which I have yet not counter checked.

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Football Shopping: CHECK HERE

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Buddhist Stupas in Chenab bed

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Check for the news here. The report is about the successful excavation by ASI of Buddhist stupas in Akhnoor District of J&K which were located in 2000.

I am not expert on Ancient History but I feel pained when I listen to Medievalists who boldly say that Buddhism was destroyed by competing Hindu Religion. Hieun Tsang wrote about Buddhist Viahara in 630 AD. The issue of deconstruction of Indian history as written by Imperialist school remains. However, Bharat as a nation, is not ready to construct a history as per the craft of history that is appreciated by Western world.

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Old Maps in Exhibition

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Nothing much to write at present. However, check this news here. The so called rationalist discards many things which are old. There are scholars who question the very boundaries of India before 1947 (read medievalists on India History). Similarly, there are political thinkers even others who point out that the term 'nation' is a new notion which Adam Smith used in his Wealth of Nation in 1797. But the cartographers saw differently. I have not visited the exhibit but I can visualize what is being displayed there.

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Rationalizing Aurangzeb's Times

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Check the Report of TOI HERE

Banks Doing History

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Check this report of Times of India.
Heritage Display by State Bank of India

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Edit Report:
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IAS online Source

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http://www.iasgeneralstudies.com/
इस साईट पर काफी कुछ है |

Bhopal Gas Lekage

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http://expressbuzz.com/nation/arjun-mum-pranab-fingers-him/181328.html

itna kuch khad gaya aur abhi tak antekaran nahi jaga.

Legacy of Raja Rammouhan Roy

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Bill upgrading Presidency College to university passed- Education

The link above is about raising Presidency College to University Status. Presidency College has a long prestigious legacy in which it has remained associated with every stage of history of Modern India since 1817. It was started as Hindu College by Raja Rammouhan Roy, the father of Indian Renaissance and Nationalism. There are some references in the news report also.

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Elite talking history Phulkian Versus Sindhawalia

Refer to the following report.

Amarinder Talks about his family

S Amarinder Singh is an ex-CM of Punjab and descendant of rulers of Patiala. The following report is a journalistic report talking nothing much except the usual stuff. However, the person who is the author he is definitely a part of history and directly related to Maharaja Ranjit Singh also.

The blogger had learnt that the family library of Amarinder Singh contains such documents which had hidden many secret not only from pre-colonial period but also from post independence period. Hence, this report is a befitting selection for reviving posting which had remained suspended for long only because of long and erratic electric supply in Punjab where only British ruled. (The Indian Punjab remained outside the control of Lahore Darbar after the Amritsar Treaty of 1809 between Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Metcalfe).

As the topic taken in report is highly controversial as why the Punjab was annexed by Dalhousie after the Anglo-Sikh war, the issue is of Conspiracy History which sadly not undertaken seriously in India. But in the report, those events had been mentioned which had been behind the final annexation of Punjab.

History Coming Alive in News Through Theft Cases

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This is another way that History is coming into news. A watch gifted to Ex Prime Minister, Late Lal Bhadur Shastri by Alexei Kosygin of Russia when he was in Tashkent Conference in 1966 is stolen.

Sometime back, the Nobel Prize medal awarded to Guru Rabindranath Tagore was stolen. The case was given to CBI but it was closed without any result.

However, what may be the conspiracies behind it, such thefts bring History into news.

Is it not surprising that there is no Conspiracy theories in India? History is an opinion but different from myths. India has always tried to live the myths. India has lived the myths of their heroes who are infallible and therefore their history is sacred without blemish of conspiracies. But, why is it that thieves know better than the nation and disappear with the items which were symbols of the greatness of the Indian heroes. The stolen items are not recovered. But no conspiracy is pursued with the aim of reaching the actual truth. The ambiguity is preserved but thieves escape with the symbols.

Will these stolen items will again bring into news the history again?!!!

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Shastri's watch stolen from his memorial in Delhi - Delhi - City - NEWS - The Times of India

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Conspiracy History Demands Space in Indian Histriography

There is absence of Conspiracy History in Indian Historiography. The Indians have the tendency to worship heroes and make God out of them. Vaishnavism can be interpreted as one of the best case in support of this argument.

Jaswant Singh Book may have troubled BJP on ideology level. However, on the sideline, it has again brought History in News and the aim with which this blog is created stands vindicated.

There are many such patches in Indian History which demands new interpertation and further inquiry. Another important topics are the Subash Chander Bose death, Lal Bahadur Shashtri Death, Shimla Summit, and so on.

The hitched report can be read in light of above mentioned points also.

I am rather satisfied with the aim of this blog as there is a place for "HISTORY IN NEWS"

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Our Heroes, Nehur and Patel but Questioning them without Records! How Fair?

Conspiracy History demands Space in Indian Historiography

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With the release of book of Jaswant Singh, BJP, the controversy of genesis of partition of India in 1947 has again acquired an attention.

The general press and the rival political parties are again indulging in superficial debates with different motives at hand. However, India as a nation must understand that after 1947, there was a need to look at our history from a fresh angle. As Carr said, history requires a continuous dialogue between present and past. We must understand that when we live present, we are not having the perception of the future. We have it in dreams and opinions only. It is only when the future is registered into past, that we can define that in which direction at least we are going. This the beauty and contribution of historic evaluation. It is an ongoing process. History is about and always alive. The need is to imbibe the actual reality as it has existed in present. For that we have to shed our biases and confusions and face the reality as it is even if it hurts. Nehru was great. Jinnah was great. But we have to understand our present problems in right perspective. Remember, in Pakistan Jinnah is great and Nehru was not great. Will you say that truth has two versions. It is not unpatriotic if someone calls a leader of enemy country as a person with stuff. You must take facts as facts. This elucidation may go on and on. In NUTSHELL, there is need to write our history for present times. NOT as REVISIONIST but as the demand of the craft of history. That is the need.

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Check the following report.
Jinnah was a great man: Jaswant Singh - India - NEWS - The Times of India

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Read but defys Cognition

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Yet another claim of reading the Indus Script. It seems to be an annual affair. It means, the History in News must have a separate section on Claims on Reading the Indus Valley Script.

Read the following Report which had appeared sometime back but now it is being carried by Indian Press also.

The Report
Indus script may soon give up its secrets- Hindustan Times: "* icon"

High Court Punjab and Haryana uses Sikh history for defining Sikh Swarup

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In a recent judgement on the Sikh Swarup, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana has used the Sikh history as approved by the Shrimoni Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee.

However, in the academic circle there is a debate that how far approval of an organisation vis-i-vis the actual actual craft of a historian shall given importance. In the era of digital history, this issue has been taken up by the people who have started the new field of knowledge popularly known as Digitial History. On the same lines of argument, the history content of Wikipedia has come under scanner and lot of criticism.

The world of historians do not react to such developments and they prefer to watch the things that happens and the way happens. However, there is need to give freedom to the historians to use their craft while evaluating the past. There should not be any binding or hindrance to the interpertations which they bring out.

The whole report can be read in the following link of Times of India.
Girl who plucked eyebrow not true Sikh, says HC - India - The Times of India

Indus Valley Language in News

Khabrein.info

The language of Indus Valley is still an unsolved mystery. The scholars are at it for long time. Therefore it remains in news.

The Times of India Report has some more details which can be accessed at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Health--Science/Indus-civilization-was-literate/articleshow/4441822.cms

Similar report from Guardian can be accessed at http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/apr/23/indus-civilisation-language-symbols


However, I will like to make a observation that the attempt to decipher should take help from all the possible scientific means but the history should not be made a news by joining it with some computer programme etc. History has its own logic and knowledge pattern. It may give an algorithm on which computer programmes can be improved. But mere an identification that some pattern is similar to some coding should not make the world excited about history.

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The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Nation | Netaji prison letters on display

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Netaji Subash Chandra Bose wrote letters to his father between December 1921 and April 1927 from different jails namely, Presidency Jail, Mandalay Central Jail, Rangoon and Insein Jails. They are going to be displayed at Cuttack. The following report has some extracts from those letters.

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Report containing the extracts of the letters of Netaji:
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Nation | Netaji prison letters on display
Seek More On Netaji HERE
More on Netaji

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On the Swami's birth anniv, his abode in Varanasi remains in oblivion-Varanasi-Cities-The Times of India

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I have not posted for long on this blog. I believe that this post is right way to do the penance and atone the mistake. However, it does not confirm to the idea on which this blog is being envisaged. Anyhow, there is streak of the guiding motive.

Here is quote from the TOI report, the link to which is being given below.
"Just five months before his death (July 4, 1902) the swami was in the city on February 4, 1902, and he stayed here (That was Varnasi: added by the blogger) for a month at Gopal Lal Vila in Cantonment area, the address mentioned in his letters he wrote to his people during his stay. "


This story is about the commemoration which is never going to be the topic of this blog. However, here is the reference is to the place and its association with the great son of India, Swami Vivekananda, which has become a part of the news.

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The link acknowledged and used here:

On the Swami's birth anniv, his abode in Varanasi remains in oblivion-Varanasi-Cities-The Times of India

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Ku Klux Klan

AFP: Woman killed during KKK initiation rite

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This news report has reference to the history of America. It has reference to the reconstruction period of America after the end of Civil War. Ku Klux Klan was a secretive society with racial agenda against the blacks.

Obama is the first Afro-American President of America. It is surprising to observe that since the day, his election to the post of the President has been announced there has been a repeated appearence of reports in America which have reference to the racial activities in past of America.
Further, it is fascinating that such organizations are still alive in America. Ku Klux Klan had left such an impact on the mind of the people not only in America, but in Europe also. It has found mentioned as a press clipping in one of the novel of Arthur O'Connole, the creator of character Shelock Holmes.

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An Associated Press shares similar views in the following report at http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gTN4X0wjHOqwUq80wkQpbe8qVXlgD94DKU880

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Mahatama Gautam Returns to India

Buddha statue returns to India after 14 centuries-India-The Times of India

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A statue of Mahatama Gautam, one of ten Avataras (Incarnation) of Lord Vishnu returns to India.
Any objection if it is written like that?

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