With the exception of a short period in the mid-1970s, India has maintained a robust democracy since it gained its independence. For much of its modern history, India was led by the secular, center-left Indian National Congress, or Congress Party, whose leaders were associated with resistance to British rule and governed the country in the decades

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‘In the text of the Mahabharata it says that the epic started off as a poem called Jaya - Victory — with only 8800 verses. Then it became the Bharata, with 24,000 slokas, before being transformed into the Great Bharata - the Mahabharata - with 100,000 stanzas. For all we know, before the Jaya the poem might well have started off as an even smaller,

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battle. For this reason he and Aristu Jah were very anxious to forge an alliance with the English through William, and to enlist the armies of the Company on their side. Aristu Jah was the most Anglophile of the Nizam’s advisers, and alone in the durbar realised the real and growing military strength of the Company. His ideas, however, were not wid

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