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Begumpura: The Anarchist Commune

by rti_adminon March 5, 2021March 20, 20233

Pranav Jeevan P Begumpura (“land without sorrow”) is a stateless, classless, casteless society imagined by poet Guru Raidas in his poem around 500 years ago in India. It was possibly the first imagination of an anarchist utopia in Indian literature. It became the guiding light for anti-caste intellectuals for imagining the society that they …

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Critical Analysis of Indian Historians’ Writings on Buddhism – Part 2

by rti_adminon February 26, 2017March 20, 20230

Ratnesh Katulkar Continued from here. It was during the Mauryan period, particularly at the time of Asoka, that India reached its zenith. There was an advanced stage of development in the field of architecture (which is visible in the remains of the Asokan inscriptions), science and technology, literature, administration and above all the emergence …