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Syama Prasad Mookerjee was the founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is undoubtedly one of the most iconic and controversial leaders in India's recent history. In spite of his significant political and ideological differences with Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Mookerjee was inducted to the first cabinet of independent India. However, following the Delhi Pact between the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan, Dr ...
My people, uprooted, describing the exodus of Hindus from East Pakistan and Bangladesh, strangely enough, is one of the very few documentations in English on the subject. Why it is so has been dealt with at length in the book. It was first published in 2001 and won both acclaim and brickbats-the latter from left Nehruvian secularists who believed that this story of human suffering had better be kept under wraps. A subsequent edition was published under the title ...
This is a book on a forgotten chapter of Indian History : The exodus of some 80 Lakhs of Hindus, with a few Buddhists and Christians, from the land mass known today as Bangladesh. The book begins with and overview of Bengali Society and Hindu-Muslim relations in Bengal from the first partition of the province in 1905, and traces the events which eventually gave rise to the partition of this province of British India in 1947. This part is based largely on ...