Books | Complexities of History
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav
In a 1902 newspaper article titled ‘Hindu nationalism’, Lajpat Rai had claimed that Hindus had historically possessed a sense of nationality, and advanced as proof a historical narrative of ancient and early medieval Hindu empires as well as Hindu resistance to ‘foreign’ Muslim rule. Even then Lajpat Rai’s history had lacked the Savarkarite Hindutva emphasis on ceaseless, inevitable conflict and warfare between Hindus an…
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