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How Lenin Tried to Foment Communist Revolution in India

The story of how Indian communists worked for two years from 1939-1941, for Hitler and Stalin and tried to foment a communist revolution in India, is a well-known one.
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How Turkey and Germany Planned Holy Jihad Against India

To provide a superficial pan-Indian legitimacy to this overtly Islamist plan, an Indian Raja called Mahendra Pratap was chosen to accompany the invading German-Turkish force in Persia.
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Kaiser, Sultan and the Holy Jihad in India

There was another axis of evil that was rotating in Constantinople, the capital of the Islamic Ottoman Empire.
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The Race for Lhasa: The Great Game Series

It is in the race for Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, that the world witnessed the last phase of the Great Game One.
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Hindu Deities in Central Asia: A Forgotten Chapter of History

Unidentified vigrahas were found in many of the homes in these ancient cities frozen in time and buried in the sand...
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Closing the Pamir Gap: The Great Game Series

India had received a great geopolitical chessboard from Britain at independence, but alas it was all squandered by political leaders of India.
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The Pundits: How Hindu Hillmen Secretly Mapped Central Asia

These British spies were mostly Hindus and the stupendous journeys that they took and the surveys that they made are the stuff of legends.
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How to Become a Superpower – Inside the ‘Great Game’ – 1.1

To the Indians in 21st century it might seem a little odd to hear, that for around five centuries, the supreme prize for which the great powers of the West fought for was: India. India, the jewel in the crown of the British Empire was the place everyone wanted to...
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Editor’s Note – 0.0

Politics in almost all cases responds to cultural trends, following the direction that culture points at. Any change which does not have its mooring in culture can be undone very easily when politics changes, but a transformation which is rooted in culture will make it impossible for politics to ignore...
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