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Ep 152: The Citizenship Battles

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Politics of Imagination

The Hindu toa project is about an alternative understanding of Indian past. It was the British who first taught us to think about our past as being divided into a Hindu period into a dark ages when the Muslims ruled over India. The greatest advocates of vartiya in this country are the greatest prisoners to the British or interest project and its categories of knowledge that they left behind. In a sense if there is anybody who deserves decolonization it is them, he says.

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