1. Veer Savarkar: A Biography – Dhananjay Keer

🔹 Scholarly biography of V.D. Savarkar, covering his revolutionary life, political thought, and the philosophy of Hindutva.

1. Life of Barrister Savarkar – Anonymous (likely close associate)

🔹 A contemporary account of Savarkar’s life, struggles, and revolutionary activities during the freedom movement.

1. The Brotherhood in Saffron – Walter K. Andersen & Shridhar D. Damle

🔹 Scholarly history and analysis of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), its ideology, growth, and role in Indian politics.

1. Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar – Biography

🔹 Life story of Dr. Hedgewar, founder of RSS, tracing his vision, organizational skills, and nationalist mission.

1. The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India – Sita Ram Goel

🔹 Historical narrative of Islamic conquests in India, examining cultural, religious, and civilizational impacts.

1. The Battle for Rama: Case of the Ayodhya Temple – Meenakshi Jain

🔹 Presents historical, archaeological, and literary evidence for the existence of a Ram temple at the Ram Janmabhoomi site.

1. Dr. Ambedkar: Life and Mission – Dhananjay Keer

🔹 A biography highlighting Ambedkar’s role as a reformer, thinker, and architect of social justice in modern India.

1. Pakistan or The Partition of India – B.R. Ambedkar

🔹 Ambedkar’s critical analysis of the Partition question, communal tensions, and possible solutions for Hindu-Muslim unity.

1. “Seven Shackles of the Hindu Society” – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

🔹 An essay by Savarkar outlining seven social restrictions (“shackles”) that hinder Hindu society — such as untouchability, caste-based professions, interdining, intermarriage, and more — and urging their abolition to foster unity and social reform.

1. Stern Reckoning: A Survey of the Events Leading Up To and Following the Partition of India – G. D. Khosla

🔹 First-hand contemporary account (written soon after Partition) of political decisions, communal violence, and refugee

It's really great to see some of the fantastic OC and helpful content being added here. Please keep up the amazing work.

On to the matters at hand

Thoughts + Requests

It's always disappointing when you come across a great comment and try to find it again, only to find it's been removed by some butthurt mod. So aside from making this a hub for great arguments and knowledge, let's also make this an ARCHIVE too - a repository and backup of great informative/useful content, by yourself or others.

So my request is that we try to avoid crossposting wherever possible - because if a user wipes their comment history, or a mod nukes a comment thread, or an entire post simply vanishes, or a whole sub gets banned, or a site is inaccessible, then we'll just have a lovely collection of dead links that lead to nowhere.

So let's NOT crosspost anymore. Although I will not disable crossposting for now, I would really like for all of us to avoid using it unless you're in a hurry and will repost it properly later.

Rules

So keeping the above thoughts in mind, I have made some changes in the rules. The main changes are:

• DO NOT MAKE A POST WITH ONLY A LINK. Please copy the entire relevant section of text here. FORMAT the post. And then add a link at the end to your source for context/courtesy, but please keep the text here. (This makes it easier to use for people on subs with filters for various sources). We also want to keep the sub searchable and indexed with any keyword that may be in your source. Remember that comments/posts in other subs may be removed by mods/admins. Help us archive good arguments here.

• Please avoid using the "crosspost" feature as much as possible. For the same reason as above: comments/posts in other subs may be removed by mods/admins. Help us archive good arguments here.

Now, I really don't want to hinder any of you from participating, but I also don't want this place to just become a dumping ground for links that we can't scan though quickly, or search for, using keywords.

So, I've formally made this a rule, AND I've added some tweaks to automod, who will be removing posts that violate this rule. Automod is not totally foolproof though, so:

• if you see someone breaking a rule, report them.
• if you feel your post was unfairly removed by automod becoming all-powerful, then please message the mod team. We'll fix it.

To all the new users

THANK YOU for coming here and helping us.

Keep fighting the good fight. Spread the word about this sub.

Defeat disinformation, narratives, irrationality, and delusion,
by using facts, logic, reason, and reality.

And if you're struggling with how to tackle an argument, come here and search!

You guys are all champs.

Jai Hind