This week's intelligence brief looks at the growing threat of political, ethnic, and religious violence in India for 2024. (These intelligence briefs are available exclusively to our Patreon supporters.)
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Narendra Modi, A Man with a Massacre On His Hands
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Religious violence in India continued to swell this month. In a matter of four days, members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who rule Haryana state bulldozed more than 300 properties belonging to Muslims. At least 150 Muslims who...
Seventy-four years ago this week, India and Pakistan each declared their independence and partitioned the subcontinent into the newly defined nations of India and Pakistan. The immediate results included the massive flight of Hindus and Muslims across the partition...
While the western media is largely ignoring this story, a major historical event has unfolded in Kashmir this week. The following briefer explains what is going on in this extremely unstable situation.
David Devadas, leading expert on the conflict and status in Kashmir visits with JB Shreve and the End of History. An important and insightful discussion about the recent terrorist attack in Kashmir.
This post is part of my wider History of India series. Today we look at the history of the Kashmir conflict and also answer the question of Why is Kashmir so important?
Why is Kashmir Important?
From a territorial dispute...
I still have several episodes left to completion of the series on the history of modern India but I thought I would go ahead and get this listing out. At the end of each podcast series I try to provide...