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Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel: Unflinching Analyses of Communism, Christianity, and Islamism
This long-form analysis situates Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel within India’s post-independence intellectual history and explains why their critiques of Communism, missionary Christianity, and Islamism remain salient. It clarifies how they distinguished personal faith from ideological programs and why they argued for constitutional equality before law over selective appeasement. It examines their diagnosis of…
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“We have been ruling the Deccan for the last 800 years!”- Excerpts from Kasim Razvi’s 1948 Speech
The excerpt captures the fervent speech of Kasim Razvi, depicting the tumultuous period during Hyderabad’s integration into India in 1947-48. Razvi’s inflammatory rhetoric, emphasizing an Islamic state and inciting violence against Hindus, underscores the atmosphere of fear and division orchestrated by the Razakars, his militant group. The speech not only reflects a deep-seated religious animosity…