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Bihar's only Muslim CM Ghafoor used to drink toddy: Ordered shooting on students, got Nitish-Lalu beaten; r...
The Origin Story of India’s Power Elite
When students fought tyranny during emergency, Congress jailed them – 50 years later, Rahul Gandhi claims to lead them
The age of ABVP
The Emergency, and the BJP’s Hidden History of Student Protest
From campus to cabinet: How DUSU forged some of India’s most influential leaders
From Bhagat Singh, Che Guevara to Nepal Gen Z, why youths rebel
When the Sangh became part of Janata Parivar – and was never again the ‘outcast’
Four reasons why Indira Gandhi declared Emergency
Pictures: From JP to Anna, 42 years of India's most iconic movements
Here are some pictures from the most historic movements in India in the last 42 years.
Bihar's only Muslim CM Ghafoor used to drink toddy: Ordered shooting on students, got Nitish-Lalu beaten; r...
The story is from 1973-74. Abdul Ghafoor Khan was the CM of Bihar. Every evening, a white Fiat car would leave from his official residence...
The Origin Story of India’s Power Elite
AFTER REKHA GUPTA WAS DECLARED CHIEF MINISTER of Delhi, Congress leader Alka Lamba posted a 30-year-old photograph from the Delhi University...
When students fought tyranny during emergency, Congress jailed them – 50 years later, Rahul Gandhi claims to lead them
Explore how Rahul Gandhi's student advocacy is overshadowed by Congress's brutal legacy during the 1975 Emergency.
The age of ABVP
The Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral victory in 2014, and the tide of Hindutva that accompanied it, gave the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad extraordinary...
The Emergency, and the BJP’s Hidden History of Student Protest
The ruling party has an inconvenient record of its own: Its emergence from student activism more extreme than anything it faces on campuses...
From campus to cabinet: How DUSU forged some of India’s most influential leaders
News News: Delhi University's Students' Union (DUSU) has long been a springboard for India's political leadership, producing figures who...
From Bhagat Singh, Che Guevara to Nepal Gen Z, why youths rebel
That Gen Z protesters toppled the Oli government in Nepal shouldn't be surprising. From Bhagat Singh to Che Guevara, the face of rebellion...
When the Sangh became part of Janata Parivar – and was never again the ‘outcast’
Providing JP Movement the boots on the ground it needed, RSS volunteers built covert networks, raised funds, and established secret lines of...
Four reasons why Indira Gandhi declared Emergency
The trouble began in Gujarat, spread to Bihar and from there to several other parts of Northern India.
1974–1975 student protests (JP Movement and campus activism)
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Widespread student and youth participation in the broader JP (Jayaprakash Narayan) movement and related campus protests calling for social and political reforms. Prominent supporters/leaders: student unions of the era, Jayaprakash Narayan as a national leader who galvanized youth participation.