Episode 32 - Understanding Indian History with Advocate J. Sai Deepak
ANI Podcast with Smita Prakash
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The Power of the Common Bindi to Prevent Political Tide
The British were comfortable providing autonomy to those communities or colonies which could lay claim to the status of being a single nation. So therefore they said first of all Hindus and Muslims are not a single nations. That's the extent of their argument. It is around that period that Radha Kumar Mukherjee and everybody starts writing to say why Bharat as a civilization must be seen different from Europe's definition of a nation. Now I'm asking myself this common bindi, the common saree, the Rabindrashanki, the whatever saying existed before that should have played a role. We end up focusing too much on the softer cultural aspect without asking whether this has had the power to
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