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Fatwas and the Fabric of Law: Shariah in Practice in India
Arun Shourie’s monumental work The World of Fatwas or The Shariah in Action represents one of the most comprehensive scholarly examinations of Islamic jurisprudence in practice within the Indian subcontinent. This book, drawing from over 18,000 pages of primary source material across forty volumes of fatwa collections, provides an unprecedented window into the mechanism by which Islamic religious law operates at the grassroots level. Shourie’s work is particularly significant for its methodical analysis of five major fatwa collections spanning different Islamic schools of thought – the Barelvi Fatawa-i-Rizvia, the Deobandi Fatawa-i-Ulema Dar al-Ulum, and others. This comprehensive approach allows readers to understand not merely isolated religious pronouncements, but the systematic worldview that underpins Islamic…
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History of the Ahoms: The Unsung Defenders of Assam | Arup Kumar Dutta | Itihasdhir
The Ahoms ruled Assam for nearly 600 years, creating one of the longest-lasting dynasties in Indian history. Yet, their legacy remains little known beyond the Northeast. In this special conversation, renowned author and historian Arup Kumar Dutta discusses his book Ahoms with Itihasdhir, shedding light on the extraordinary story of this dynasty that resisted invasions, preserved Assam’s culture, and safeguarded the Hindu civilization of the region. BUY THE BOOK: https://www.amazon.in/Ahoms-Reimagined-Arup-Kumar-Dutta/dp/9356294143 📚 About Us: Itihasdhir is a podcast book review channel dedicated to diving deep into the world of literature. We explore a diverse range of books, from historical masterpieces and contemporary bestsellers to timeless classics and thought-provoking non-fiction. Our mission…
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Babur’s Game of Thrones | Aabhas Maldahiyar with Itihasdhir
In this gripping conversation, author Aabhas Maldahiyar joins Itihasdhir to discuss his book, Babur: The Chessboard King. Delve into the life of the first Mughal emperor, a man of strategy, ambition, and calculated moves, who transformed the political landscape of India. BUY THE BOOK: https://www.amazon.in/Babur-Chessboard-King-Aabhas-Maldahiyar/dp/0670099546 📚 About Us: Itihasdhir is a podcast book review channel dedicated to diving deep into the world of literature. We explore a diverse range of books, from historical masterpieces and contemporary bestsellers to timeless classics and thought-provoking non-fiction. Our mission is to ignite your passion for reading and offer insightful perspectives on the stories and ideas that shape our world. 🎧 What to Expect: In-Depth Book Reviews: Detailed analyses of…
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Caste‑icide: The Hidden Script Behind Hindu Decline | Mahalingam Balaji | Itihasdhir
What if the story of caste in India isn’t what you’ve been told? In this eye‑opening conversation, Mahalingam Balaji, author of Caste‑icide: The Roots of Hindu Extinction, unpacks the hidden script behind the caste narrative and how it has been weaponized to weaken Hindu society from within. BUY THE BOOK: https://www.amazon.in/Caste-icide-roots-Hindu-Extinction-Dharmic-ebook/dp/B0DW1N9TCJ 📚 About Us: Itihasdhir is a podcast book review channel dedicated to diving deep into the world of literature. We explore a diverse range of books, from historical masterpieces and contemporary bestsellers to timeless classics and thought-provoking non-fiction. Our mission is to ignite your passion for reading and offer insightful perspectives on the stories and ideas that shape our…
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Uprooting the Beautiful Tree: Dharampal’s Rediscovery of India’s Indigenous Education System
In the landscape of Indian historiography, few interventions have been as intellectually disruptive as Dharampal’s The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century. First published in 1983, this landmark volume mounts a compelling challenge to entrenched colonial narratives that portrayed precolonial India as a civilizational void, bereft of formal education and awaiting the salvific arrival of British modernity. Drawing on archival records and administrative surveys commissioned by the British East India Company, Dharampal meticulously reconstructs an educational ecosystem that was at once decentralized, inclusive, and pedagogically rich. The source materials for Dharampal’s research include extensive data from early nineteenth-century surveys conducted in the Madras, Bombay, and Bengal Presidencies.…
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The Manipur Conundrum: Truth Behind the Violence | Authors Speak Out | Itihasdhir
Step into an unflinching conversation on Itihasdhir with the authors of The Manipur Conundrum: History. Exodus. Conversion. Manoshi Sinha, Dr. Ankita Dutta, and Vladimir Adityanath, as they unpack the layered realities behind the conflict in Manipur. From pre‑Mahabharata origins to the recent surge of violence, the authors dissect how demographic shifts, indigenous exoduses, religious conversions, narcotics trafficking, and colonial-era policies have shaped the crisis. Combining rigorous research with regional insights, they offer a narrative grounded in facts, historical precedent, and cultural heritage. Buy the Book: https://www.amazon.in/Manipur-Conundrum-History-Exodus-Conversion/dp/B0F5BGYPBX 📚 About Us: Itihasdhir is a podcast book review channel dedicated to diving deep into the world of literature. We explore a diverse range of…
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Justice or Farce? Analyzing When Anita Gets Bail by Arun Shourie
In a nation where justice is supposed to be blind but often appears blindfolded by incompetence, corruption, and callous indifference, Arun Shourie’s Anita Gets Bail emerges not as another academic treatise on judicial reform, but as a raw, deeply personal account of what happens when ordinary citizens collide with India’s labyrinthine legal system. This is judicial critique at its most human—written not from the ivory towers of legal scholarship, but from the waiting rooms of district courts where hope withers and dignity dies a slow death. The Personal Becomes Political: A Love Letter to Resilience What makes Shourie’s twenty-seventh book extraordinary is its foundation in lived experience. The narrative begins with a…
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Crash of a Civilization: How India Was Broken from Within | Kanchan Banerjee | Itihasdhir
Buy The Book: https://www.amazon.in/Crash-Civilization-Kanchan-Banerjee/dp/9355212402 In this eye-opening conversation, Itihasdhir sits down with Kanchan Banerjee, author of the explosive book Crash of a Civilization, to explore how India’s ancient civilization was systematically dismantled—politically, spiritually, and culturally. Was Bharat’s fall accidental, or was it engineered from within? From colonial sabotage and religious conversions to the erasure of indigenous knowledge systems and historical distortions, this interview uncovers the uncomfortable truths behind India’s civilizational crash and what it will take for a true Indic renaissance. 📚 About Us: Itihasdhir is a podcast book review channel dedicated to diving deep into the world of literature. We explore a diverse range of books, from historical masterpieces and…
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Whose History Is She Really Telling? A Critical Look at Romila Thapar’s Marxist Lens
Romila Thapar, long revered within elite academic circles and international liberal platforms as the authoritative voice on Indian historiography, positions her work, Our History, Their History, Whose History?, as an ostensibly impartial inquiry into the political utilization of historical narratives. However, when viewed critically through an Indic right-wing lens, Thapar’s slim but ideologically dense volume emerges less as detached scholarship and more as a carefully orchestrated defense of a Nehruvian-Marxist historiographical paradigm that continues to dominate Indian academia decades after its ideological apex. Central to Thapar’s narrative is the contention that nationalism inherently distorts historical interpretation. Ironically, this critique fails to confront her own implicit nationalist biases favoring the Nehruvian…
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Where Temples Speak and Histories Whisper: A Journey with Deepa Mandlik
India’s temples have always been more than stone or ritual—they are vessels of heritage, culture, and unbroken faith. Deepa Mandlik’s Dynasties of Devotion is not just a book; it’s a journey that invites the reader to linger in the shadows of spires, decipher legends in sculpture, and experience the essence of Indian history through seven extraordinary temples stretching from Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu to the Khmer heartland of Cambodia. To a reader like me, who loves to travel and explore temples, with the recent example of the 8 Aṣtavināyaka Temples in Maharashtra, this book was like a pilgrimage in itself. The Book’s Spirit: Weaving Story With Stone Unlike most academic treatises, Mrs.…
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