(1) Harvesting Misery
(2) Sardar Patel and
the Integration of the Princely States
The Princely
States
Junagadh and the
Crazy Nawab
Hyderabad :
Faithful Ally of the British
(3) Kashmir : BCE to
1950s
Rajatarangini
Shah Mir to
Mughals
Abdali to
Maharaja Hari Singh
Britain: the Main
Culprit
Sheikh Abdullah :
The Blood Brother
Mountbatten and
the British Army Chiefs
J&K : 1946 to
August 1947
J&K :
September 1947 Onwards
Article 370
Why Hari Singh
Vacillated?
547 Successes and
1 Failure
Sardar, VP Menon
and J&K
(4) Tibet : Erasing a
Nation
The Historical
Background
Tibet’s
Importance and its Water Resources
Erasure of Tibet
as a Nation
Chronology
Could China
have been prevented?
Sardar
Patel’s Approach
Independent
India: Less Concerned than the British!
Independent
India’s Indifferent Approach
India
Promoting China in the UN!
India’s
Indifference to Tibet in the UN!
The Blunder
called Panchsheel
Why the
Untenable Approach?
Strange and
Baffling Rationalisation
(5) Himalayan
Misadventure
Border History
till Independence
India-Tibet
Border Segments
Ladakh-Tibet
Border
The McMahon
Line
Mid-Segment
Sikkim-Tibet
Border
Post-Independence
Scenario
What should
have been done post-Independence
China’s
Stand
India’s
Stand
Discussions
Dead-end
Onwards to
Disaster
Ill-conceived Forward Policy
Galwan
Valley and Dhola Post
India’s
Military “Preparation”
No Planning
and No Intelligence
The Rout
Stand of Other Countries
China’s
Response
Analysis and
Persons Responsible
The Guilty
Men
India’s
Faulty Approach
Why Fix the
Borders Unilaterally?
Why the
Intransigence?
Sweep Under
the Carpet
Israel’s
Example
Not Taking
Responsibility
Reaction of
the Media and the Public
Summarising
Blunders
Nehru’s
Insufferably Arrogant Protégé
The Current
Status
(6) The Sinhala and
the Tamils
(7) India’s
Self-Inflicted Poverty
“Scientific”
Socialism
Theory of
Non-Affluent Society
Practice
Proves the Theory Wrong
India’s
Socialistic Suicide
India Plumps
for Pro-Poverty Policy
What They Said
Why Persist
with the Failed Model?
Misnomer: The
‘Hindu’ Rate of Growth
(8) Socialism,
Babudom & Corruption
The Curse of
Babudom
Socialism +
Babudom = Corruption
Corruption in the
“Good” Old Days
(9) External Policies
“No” to UNSC
Membership
Foreign to
Foreign Policy
Indus Water
Treaty
(10) Internal
Policies
Neglect of the
Northeast
Northeast
thanks to Bordoloi
Migration
Politics
Too Many
States!
Reorganisation of States
The Language
Issue
Safety of
Minorities, Dalits and Vulnerable Sections
(11) Inexplicable
Ways
Netaji Subhash
Mystery
Belated Bharat
Ratnas
Treatment
Post-Death
Dalits and The
Greatest Indian After Gandhi
Mental and
Cultural Slavery
Motilal-Tribe vs. Rao-Tribe
The Fair Ladies
(12) Sardar Patel :
Interesting Extracts
Select Extracts
If Only
Sardar Patel was Prime Minister
Undemocratic
Anointment
Integration of the Princely States
Junagadh
Hyderabad
Kashmir
Tibet
& China
Debilitating Nehru-Indira-Dynasty Socialism
“No” to
Dynacracy
Treatment
Post-Death
Belated
Bharat Ratnas
Namkarans
Unlimited
Sardar’s
Daughter
(13) Dynacracy and
Hubris
Gift :
Democracy or Dynacracy?
Undemocratic Anointment
Dynasty
First
Limiting the Term of the PM
Not
Appointing a Successor
Taken
Shame Out of Dynacracy
Ensuring
Dynastic Recall
Election
Funding & Vote-Bank Politics
Feudal,
Undemocratic Mores
Academics and
Books
Full of Hubris?
(14) Summarising the
Invention
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