The Dharma Dispatch

[SUNDAY READING] Read this intriguing and delightful anecdote of how mass distribution of chapatis played a mysterious role during the first war of Indian independence. https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/how-the-ubiquitous-chapati-forged-the-first-war-of-indian-independence-an-unsolved-mystery

How to Study and Write History: Excellent Tips from Acharya Jadunath Sarkar The students should he made to write their own summaries and, bring them to the teacher for correction. Summaries if made by a student himself serve many useful purposes; the exercise teaches him to separate the wheat from the chaff in what he reads, to marshal facts, in their natural sequence or in the order of their importance, and to practise terseness and accuracy of expression. Above all it calls forth his intellectual self-reliance. How many teachers of this calibre and vision exist in our universities today? And how infinitely fortunate were Sarkar's students, who studied directly under him? Read this highly inspirational essay! 📑🙏🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/how-to-study-and-write-history-excellent-tips-from-acharya-jadunath-sarkar

Jadunath Sarkar’s Piercing Analysis of European Teaching Methods in India In this important essay, Acharya Jadunath Sarkar offers a brilliant critique of the inapplicability of European teaching methods to Indian students. His insights are truly timeless. This essay will prove immensely beneficial especially to teachers at all levels and for education policymakers. Do read! https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/jadunath-sarkars-piercing-analysis-of-european-teaching-methods-in-india

Jadunath Sarkar’s Confessions as a History Teacher A brilliant essay by Jadunath Sarkar, the doyen of Indian history, on the problems teaching history in college more than a century ago. This essay offers the firsthand perspective of the Acharya’s prowess not just as a historian but a teacher of the highest order. This aspect of the Acharya’s legacy is rather little-known and it is only fitting that we hear him speak from direct experience. Among other things, the essay opens up a lost and forgotten world of the exacting academic standards that existed more than a century ago in India. 🛕🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/jadunath-sarkars-confessions-as-a-history-teacher

Muhammad Azim-ud-din: Aurangzeb’s Grandson and the Extortionist of Bengal Aurangzeb’s grandson, Muhammad Azim-ud-din was appointed as the Subahdaar of Bengal in 1697. He ruled the province with shocking oppression and extortion. The kind of tyranny he exercised in Bengal is shocking beyond words. Do read the full essay! https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/muhammad-azim-ud-din-aurangzebs-grandson-and-the-extortionist-of-bengal

Murshid Quli Khan: The Brahmana who Founded Murshidabad This is the first episode of a comprehensive history of Murshid Quli Khan, Aurangzeb's confidant and the first Nawab of Bengal. MURSHID QULI KHAN was born in 1660 as a Brahmana named Suryanarayan Mishra somewhere in Dakshinapatha. When he was just nine, a man named Haji Shafi Isfahani purchased Suryanarayan Mishra, converted him to Islam and renamed him as Muhammad Hādi after circumcising him. Eventually, Muhammad Hādi became Aurangzeb’s right-hand man who ruthlessly implemented a “pure,” Sharia-based financial administration throughout the Mughal empire. In blunt terms, it meant an uncompromising extortion of Hindus to the point of impoverishment or conversion. --- Read this exciting new series filled with eye-opening historical truths. 🕉🛕🪔📑 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/murshid-quli-khan-the-brahmana-who-founded-murshidabad

How Indian Communists Helped the Muslim League to Carve out Pakistan This is a little-known story of how the Indian Communists actively helped the Muslim League to create Pakistan narrated by the redoubtable Sita Ram Goel. Some excerpts. The stage had thus been fully prepared for the climax which came in 1942-43. The Communist Party of India started quoting chapter and verse from the masters, Lenin and Stalin, in order to prove that India, like pre-revolutionary Russia, was seething with a number of submerged nationalities -- Andhras, Assamese, Bengalis, Gujaratis, Kashmiris, Malayalis, Marathas, Oriyas, Pathans, Punjabis, Sindhis and Tamils. Each of these had a right of its secede from the Indian federation and set up a sovereign state of its own. As the people in Bengal in the east and Punjab, Sindh and North-West Frontier Province in the west were predominantly Muslim, they could set up a separate federation of their own and call it Pakistan. ----- The details are truly chilling! Do read. https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/how-indian-communists-helped-the-muslim-league-to-carve-out-pakistan

The Poignant Story of the Jai Sitaram Gosais This is the evocative story of a forgotten sect of Hindu monks known as the Jai Sitaram Gosais. ----- The Jai Sitaram Gosais were a group of Parivrajakas or wandering Sadhus. They constantly undertook Yatras in small and large groups, each group headed by a leader. All Gosais were Brahmacharins. They smeared Vibhuti all over their body and had radiant eyes. They sported matted locks and wore the Rudrakshamaala and Tulasi garland around their neck. When they halted their journey late in the evening, they constructed an Agni-Kunda, sat around it and began singing bhajans. This would be followed by a Parayana of some sacred text like the Ramayana or Bhagavad Gita. --- Do read the whole evocative essay and tell their story to your children. 🙏🕉🛕🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/the-poignant-story-of-the-jai-sitaram-gosais

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