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  1. Bhagwan Das Halna, ‘
    Hindu Code Bill Ka Virodh
    ’ (Opposition to the Hindu Code Bill),
    Kalyan
    , August 1948, pp. 1242–45.
  2. ‘
    Hind
    u Code Bill Aur Mandiron Ki Zamindari
    ’ (Hindu Code Bill and Control of Temples),
    Kalyan
    , October 1948, pp. 1375–76.
  3. Oral History Transcript, Gyanwati Darbar, NMML, Acc. No. 547.
  4. ‘
    Hind
    u Code Bill Aur Mandiron Ki Zamindari
    ’ (Hindu Code Bill and Control of Temples),
    Kalyan
    , October 1948, pp. 1375–76.
  5. ‘
    Sanskrit
    i Aur Dharma Ka Ghatak Hindu Code Bill
    ’ (Hindu Code Bill: A Danger to Culture and Religion),
    Kalyan
    , March 1949, pp. 900– 04.
  6. Ibid.
  7. ‘Hindu Code Bill’,
    Kalyan
    , April 1949, inside back cover.
  8. Gyanendra Pandey,
    The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class,
    Communit
    y and Nation in Northern India, 1920
    –
    194
    0
    , Anthem Press, London, 2002, p. 41.
  9. ‘
    Hind
    u Code Bill Par Sammatiyan
    ’ (Views on Hindu Code Bill),
    Kalya
    n
    , July 1949, inside back page.
  10. Swami Parasnath Saraswati, ‘Hindu Code Bill’,
    Kalyan
    , August 1949, pp. 1200–03.
  11. Sinha, 2012, pp. 72–73.
  12. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, ‘Hindu Code Bill’,
    Kalyan
    , September 1951, p. 4.
  13. Smith, 1963, p. 281.
  14. ‘
    Nay
    e Roop Mein Hindu Code Bill
    ’ (Hindu Code Bill In a New Form),
    Kalya
    n
    , July 1954, p. 1182.
  15. Rules and Regulations of the Gobind Bhawan Karyalaya. Poddar Papers.
  16. Kalya
    n
    , February 1946, pp. 933, 935.
  17. Madangopal Singhal, ‘
    Harijan Mandir Pravesh
    ’ (Harijan Temple Entry),
    Kalyan
    , January 1947, pp. 715–22.
  18. Nicholas B. Dirks,
    Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of
    Moder
    n India
    , Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2002, p. 269.
  19. ‘
    Harija
    n Mandir Pravesh
    ’,
    Kalyan
    , January 1947.
  20. Varnashram Swarajya Sangh, ‘
    Antyajon Ke Liye Mandir Pravesh Ka
    Nished
    h Kyon
    ’ (Why Temple Entry Should Be Banned for Lower Castes),
    Kalyan, Hindu Sanskriti Ank
    , January 1950, pp. 214–17.
  21. Bihar
    , 1912–2012
    , Bihar State Archives, 2012, p. 60.
  22. The discussion in this and the next paragraph is based on Hetukar Jha, ‘Promises and Lapses: Understanding the Experience of Scheduled Castes in Bihar in Historical Perspective’,
    Journal of Indian School of Political
    Economy
    , Vol. XII, July–December 2000, pp. 431– 32.
  23. Hanuman Prasad Poddar,
    Balpurvak Dev Mandir Pravesh Aur Bhakti
    (Forceful Entry into Temples and Devotion), Gita Press, Gorakhpur, 1953.
  24. Collecte
    d Works of Mahatma Gandhi
    , Vol. 57, pp. 339–40.
  25. Para
    m Pujyapad Shri Jagatguru Shankaracharya Shri Swami Niranjan
    De
    v Tirth Maharaj Ke Mahatvapurna Sadupadesh
    (Important Discourse of Niranjan Dev Tirth Delivered in Delhi),
    Kalyan
    , October 1967, pp 1219–26.
  26. Lok Sabha Debates, Sixth Session, Vol. 22, Nos. 10–20, 2–6 December 1968, Lok Sabha Secretariat, pp. 14–18.
  27. ‘
    Sanata
    n Dharma Par Anuchit Aakshep
    ’ (Inappropriate Comments on Sanatan Dharma),
    Kalyan
    , December 1968, inside back cover.
  28. See Graham, 1990; Craig Baxter,
    The Jana Sangh: A Biography of an
    India
    n Political Party
    , OUP, New Delhi, 1971 and Christophe Jaffrelot,
    The
    Hind
    u Nationalist Movement in India
    , Viking, New Delhi, 1996.
  29. Jaffrelot, 1996, p. 164.
  30. Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1952–1980), Party Document, Internal Affairs, Vol. 4, p. 112. BJP, 2005.
  31. Ibid., pp. 101–02.
  32. Jaffrelot, 1996, p. 164.
  33. Prabhudatt Brahmachari, ‘
    Vanvasi Bandhuon Ke Beech Mein
    ’ (In the Midst of Forest Dwellers),
    Kalyan
    , May 1963, pp. 917–25.
  34. Baxter, 1971, p. 133.
  35. Ibid., pp. 143–45.
  36. ‘
    Vanvas
    i Bandhuon Ke Beech Mein
    ’ (In the Midst of Adivasi Brothers),
    Kalya
    n
    , May 1963.
  37. Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, ‘
    Hindu Sanskriti
    ’ (Hindu Culture),
    HSA
    , Kalyan
    , January 1950, pp. 23–32.
  38. Swami Karpatri Maharaj, ‘
    Sanskrit
    i Vimarsh
    ’ (Discourse on Culture),
    HS
    A
    , pp. 35–39.
  39. Sri Bharat Dharma Mahamandal,
    The World’s Eternal Religion
    , Naval Kishore Press, Lucknow, 1920, p. III.
  40. Sri Bharat Dharma Mahamandal, ‘
    Hindu Sanskriti
    ,’
    HS
    A
    , pp. 41–50.
  41. Mahant Digvijaynath, ‘
    Kya Hindutva Sampradayikta Hai
    ’ (Is Hindutva Communal?),
    HSA
    , pp. 61–62.
  42. Partha Chatterjee, ‘History and the Nationalisation of Hinduism’, in Vasudha Dalmia and Heinrich von Stietencron (eds),
    The Oxford India
    Hinduis
    m Reader
    , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007, p. 258.
  43. Mahant Digvijaynath, ‘
    Kya Hindutva Sampradayikta Hai
    ’,
    HSA
    .
  44. Kunwar Chandkaran Sharda, ‘
    Hindu Sanskriti Kya Hai
    ’ (What is Hindu Culture?),
    HS
    A
    , pp. 201–03.
  45. Madhavrao Sadashiv Golwalkar, ‘
    Hindu Sanskriti
    ’,
    HSA
    , pp. 57–61.
  46. Justice Jivji, ‘
    Hindu Sanskriti Aur Swadhinta
    ’ (Hindu Culture and Freedom),
    HSA
    , pp. 136–44.
  47. Kishori Das Vajpayee, ‘
    Hindu Sanskriti Aur Rashtriyata
    ’ (Hindu Culture and Nationalism),
    HSA
    , pp. 152–53.
  48. Jugal Kishore Birla, ‘
    Arya Hindu Dharma
    ’ (The Aryan Hindu Religion),
    HSA
    , p. 200.
  49. Sampurnanand, ‘
    Hindu Sanskriti
    ’,
    HSA
    , pp. 69–73.
  50. C. Rajagopalachari, ‘
    Hindu Sanskriti Hi Vishwa Sanskriti Hai
    ’ (Hindu Culture Is World Culture)
    HSA
    , p. 63.
  51. Vinoba Bhave, ‘
    Hindu Kaun
    ’ (Who is a Hindu?),
    HSA
    , p. 63.
  52. Jitmal Lunia to Poddar, 8 March 1941. Poddar Papers.
  53. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, ‘
    Hindi Aur Hindustani, Kaam Ke Patra
    ’ (Hindi and Hindustani: Meaningful Letters),
    Kalyan
    , June 1947, pp. 1030–31.
  54. Ravi Shankar Shukla, ‘
    Hindustani Ka Rahasya
    ’ (Mystery of Hindustani), in two parts,
    Kalyan
    , July and August 1947, pp. 1090– 97, 1156–61.
  55. Jaffrelot, 1996, p. 162.
  56. Raghuvira, ‘
    Hindi Bhasha Ki Raksha Karo, Yahi Samay Hai
    ’ (Defend Hindi Language: This is the Occasion),
    Kalyan
    , September 1947, pp. 1229–31.
  57. Editorial comment at the end of Raghuvira’s article.
    Kalyan
    , September 1947, p. 1231.
  58. Ghanshyam Singh Gupt, ‘
    Swatantr
    a Bharat Ki Bhasha
    ’ (Independent India’s Language),
    Kalyan
    , March 1948, pp. 890–92.
  59. Robert D. King, ‘Language Politics and Conflicts in South Asia’, in Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru and S.N. Sridhar (eds),
    Language in South
    Asi
    a
    , Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008, pp. 316– 19.
  60. Ramcharan Mahendra, ‘
    Hindu Veshbhusha Aur Hindi Bhasha Ko
    Apnan
    e Mein Garv Ka Anubhav Karen
    ’ (Feel Proud to Adopt Hindu Attire and Hindi Language),
    Kalyan
    , November 1966, pp. 1312–16.

 

5. Religion as Politics, Politics of Religion
  1. I owe this argument to Jyotirmaya Sharma of University of Hyderabad.
  2. Christophe Jaffrelot,
    The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India
    , Viking, New Delhi, 1996, p. 112.
  3. Charu Gupta, ‘The Icon of Mother in Late Colonial North India: Bharat Mata, Matri Bhasha and Gau Mata’,
    Economic & Political
    Weekl
    y
    , Vol. 36, No. 45, 10–16 November 2001, pp. 4291–99; Peter van der Veer,
    Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in
    Indi
    a
    , University of California Press, Berkeley, 1994, p. 86.
  4. Ibid.
  5. Ibid., pp. 86–88.
  6. Therese O’Toole, ‘Secularizing the Cow: The Relationship between Religious Reform and Hindu Nationalism’, in Antony Copley (ed.),
    Hinduis
    m in Public and Private
    , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003, pp. 95–98.
  7. D.N. Jha,
    Th
    e Myth of the Holy Cow
    , Verso, London, 2004.
  8. Poddar’s letter to prospective contributors to
    Gau Ank
    ,
    Kalyan
    ’s annual issue of 1945. Poddar Papers.
  9. Mahatma Gandhi, ‘
    Bharat Ki Sukh Samridhi
    ’ (India’s Prosperity),
    Kalya
    n
    ,
    Gau Ank
    , October 1945, p. 17.
  10. Maithilisharan Gupta, ‘
    Gau Geet
    ’ (Poem on the Cow),
    Gau Ank
    , p. 5.
  11. Shanti Kumar Nanuram Vyas, ‘
    Gau Aur Nari
    ’ (Cow and Woman),
    Ga
    u Ank
    , pp. 280–84.
  12. Shankaracharya of Kanchi, ‘
    Gau Raksha Hi Prapanch Raksha Hai
    ’ (Cow Protection is the Protection of the World),
    Gau Ank
    , p. 4.
  13. Prabhudatt Brahmachari, ‘
    Gaumata Aur Hindutva
    ’ (Mother Cow and Hindutva),
    Gau Ank
    , pp. 14–16.
  14. Hanuman Prasad Poddar and Chimmanlal Gosvami, ‘
    Kshama
    Prarthana
    ’ (Prayer for Forgiveness),
    Gau Ank
    , pp. 662–63.
  15. O’Toole, 2003 p. 102.
  16. Gupta, 2001, pp. 4291–99.
  17. Swami Dayanand Saraswati, ‘
    Gau Se Anant Labh
    ’ (Countless Benefits from Cow),
    Gau Ank
    , p. 248.
  18. Sir Datar Singh, ‘
    Bharatvarsh
    a Mein Gaushalaon Aur Pinjrapolon Ka
    Sudhar
    ’ (Improvement in India’s Cowsheds and Shelters),
    Gau Ank
    , pp. 20–23.
  19. Radha Kamal Mukerjee, ‘
    Jangalo
    n Aur Gocharbhumiyon Ka Prabandh
    ’ (Management of Jungles and Pastureland),
    Gau Ank
    , pp. 315–16.
  20. Madan Mohan Malaviya, ‘
    Gorakhsha Ke Sadhan
    ’ (Ways of Cow Protection),
    Gau Ank
    , pp. 100–06.
  21. Sir Purshottamdas Thakurdas, ‘
    Vartama
    n Bharat Mein Gau Ki Dasha
    ’ (State of Cow in Present-day India),
    Gau Ank
    , pp. 25–26.
  22. Dr Rajendra Prasad, ‘
    Gau Palan Sanatan Dharma Hai
    ’ (Rearing Cows is Sanatan Dharma),
    Gau Ank
    , p. 24.
  23. Dharam Lal Singh, ‘
    Musalman Aur Gau Raksha
    ’ (Muslims and Cow Protection),
    Gau Ank
    , pp. 219–29.
  24. ‘
    Humayu
    n Ki Gau Mans Se Ghrina
    ’ (Humayun’s Hatred for Beef),
    Ga
    u Ank
    , p. 215.
  25. Maulana Kabil Saheb, ‘
    Gau Raksha Kyon Avashyak Hai
    ’ (Why Is Cow Protection Necessary?),
    Gau Ank
    , pp. 626–27.
  26. ‘
    Bhara
    t Mein Gau Badh Sarvatha Bandh Ho
    ’ (Cow Slaughter Should Be Completely Banned in India),
    Kalyan,
    July 1947, back page.
  27. Srinivas Poddar,
    Gau Ko Bachaiye
    (Save the Cows),
    Kalyan
    , August 1947, pp. 1138–40.
  28. Collecte
    d Works of Mahatma Gandhi
    , Vol. 90, pp. 203–05.
  29. Kishorelal Mashruwala, ‘
    Vanaspati Pratibandhak Kanoon
    ’ (Law to Ban Vegetable Oil),
    Kalya
    n
    , July 1950, pp. 1287–88.
  30. Baba Raghav Das, ‘
    Gau Hatya Bandh Honi Hi Chahiye
    ’ (Cow Slaughter Must Stop),
    Kalyan
    , September 1947, p. 1224.
  31. Donald Eugene Smith,
    India As A Secular State
    , Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1963, p. 484.
  32. ‘
    Gaubad
    h Nishedh Shighra Ho
    ’ (Cow Slaughter Should Be Banned Immediately),
    Kalyan
    , October 1947, pp. 1298–1301.
  33. Smith, 1963, pp. 484–85.
  34. Ibid.
  35. ‘
    Ga
    u Badh Sarvatha Bandh Ho
    ’ (Cow Slaughter Should Be Completely Banned),
    Kalyan
    , August 1949, pp. 1217–18.
  36. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, ‘
    Gau Badh Ko Protsahan
    ’ (Encouragement to Cow Slaughter),
    Kalyan,
    November 1949, inside back cover.
  37. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, ‘
    Gau Badh Ko Doosra Ek Aur Protsahan
    ’ (Another Encouragement to Cow Slaughter),
    Kalyan
    , December 1949, inside back cover.
  38. Smith, 1963, p. 486.
  39. Ibid.
  40. Ibid.
  41. Bharat Gosevak Samaj: Report on the Last Six Month’s Work. Poddar Papers.
  42. Jaffrelot, 1996, p. 73.
  43. Bharat Gosevak Samaj: Report on the Last Six Month’s Work. Poddar Papers.
  44. Jaffrelot, 1996, p. 205.
  45. B.D. Graham,
    Hindu Nationalism and Indian Politics
    , Cambridge University Press, New York, 1980, pp. 148–49.
  46. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, ‘
    Gohaty
    a Nivaran Tatha Delhi Jail Mein
    Ansha
    n Karnewale Sadhuon Ko Turant Chhorne Ki Appeal
    ’ (An Appeal to Immediately Release Sadhus on Fast in a Delhi Jail),
    Kalyan
    , June 1966, inside back cover.
  47. Bhagwati Prasad Singh,
    Kalyan Path: Nirmata Aur Rahi
    , Radha Madhav Seva Sansthan, Gorakhpur, 1980, pp. 341–42.
  48. Rajendra Singh, ‘Rajju Bhaiya’, to Poddar, 9 May 1967. Poddar Papers.
  49. Craig Baxter,
    Biography of a Political Party
    :
    Jana Sangh
    , Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1971, p. 259.
  50. Prabhudatt Brahmachari, ‘
    Gau Ki Raksha Balidan Ke Bina Nahin
    ’ (Cow Protection Is Not Possible Without Sacrifice),
    Kalyan,
    July 1966, pp. 1045–54.
  51. ‘
    Gauhaty
    a Bandh Karane Ke Liye Bhagwad Aaradhana
    ’ (Worshipping Gods to Put an End to the Slaughter of Cows),
    Kalyan
    , July 1966, inside back cover.
  52. Prabhudatt Brahmachari, ‘
    Goseva Aur Gohatya Nishedh Ke Nimitt
    Amara
    n Anshan
    ’ (Fast Unto Death in the Service of the Cow and Prohibition of Cow Slaughter,
    Kalyan
    , September 1966, pp. 1185– 91.
  53. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, ‘
    Goraksha Maha Abhiyan
    ’ (Massive Campaign for Cow Protection),
    Kalyan
    , September 1966, pp. 1210– 12.
  54. ‘
    Goraksh
    a Maha Abhiyan Sambandhi Kuch Suchnayen
    ’ (Some Information Regarding Gorakhsa Maha Abhiyan),
    Kalyan
    , September 1966, inside back over.
  55. ‘
    Goraksh
    a Maha Abhiyan
    ,’
    Kalyan
    , October 1966, inside back over.
  56. Swami Niranjan Dev Tirth, ‘
    Gau Hatya Ko Poorna Roop Se Bandh
    Karan
    e Ke Liye Balidan
    ’ (Sacrifice for Total Ban on Cow Slaughter),
    Kalyan
    , November 1966, pp. 1279–83.
  57. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, ‘
    Govans
    h Ki Hatya Shighra Se Shighra
    Band
    h Ho
    ’ (Killing of Cattle Should Stop at the Earliest),
    Kalyan
    , November 1966, p. 1331.
  58. Poddar to Golwalkar, 20 October 1966, in
    Saras Patra
    , compiled by Shyamsundar Dujari, Gita Vatika Prakashan, Gorakhpur, 2005, pp. 136–37.
  59. Atiqur Rehman Kidwai, ‘
    Gohaty
    a Samasya: Sarkar Aur Musalman
    ’ (Problem of Cow Slaughter: Government and Muslims),
    Kalyan
    , November 1966, pp. 1335–36.
  60. The information in this paragraph is sourced from Jaffrelot, 1996, pp. 206–07 and Baxter, 1971, p. 260.
  61. Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1952–1980), Party Document, Policies and Manifestoes, Vol. I, pp. 212–13, 266, 288. BJP, 2005.
  62. ‘
    Gorakshart
    h Nanda Bhi Jagadguru Ke Saath Satyagraha Karenge
    ’ (For Cow Protection Nanda Will Join Satyagraha with Jagadguru),
    Veer
    Arjun
    , 30 May 1968. Poddar Papers.
  63. Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1952–1980), Party Document, Policies and Manifestoes, Vol. I, p. 291. BJP 2005.
  64. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, ‘
    Main Bhagvat Ichcha Se Hi Goraksha
    Mah
    a Abhiyan Samiti Mein Sammilit Hua
    ’ (By God’s Grace I Became Part of Goraksha Maha Abhiyan Samiti)
    Kalyan,
    December 1966, p. 1392.
  65. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, ‘
    Bhara
    t Sarkar Ki Maans Utpadan Ki
    Panchvarshiy
    a Yojana
    ’ (Indian Government’s Five-Year Plan for Meat Production),
    Kalyan
    , November 1966, p. 1394.
  66. Hanuman Prasad Poddar to Indira Gandhi, Kartik Shukla 11, Samvat 2023 (1966), in
    Saras Patra
    , 1999, pp. 137–40.
  67. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, ‘
    Gohaty
    a Nirodh Ka Prayas
    ’ (Efforts to Ban Cow Slaughter),
    Kalyan
    , January 1967, pp. 699–703.
  68. ‘
    Sarvadaliy
    a Gorakhsha Maha Abhiyan Samiti Ka Chunav Se Sambandh
    Nahin
    ’ (SGMS Has Nothing to Do with the Elections),
    Kalyan
    , February 1967, p. 765.
  69. Information in this paragraph is from Jaffrelot, 1996, p. 211; Baxter, 1971, pp. 260–61.
  70. Brijlal Biyani, ‘
    Gohaty
    a Nirodh
    ’ (Cow Slaughter Ban),
    Kalyan
    , March 1967, pp. 813–17.
  71. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, comments on Biyani’s article,
    Kalyan
    , March 1967, p. 817 (concluding paragraph).
  72. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, ‘
    Delhi Tihar Jail Mein Gorakhsha Ke
    Satyagrah
    i Sadhuon par Amanushik Prahar
    ’ (Inhuman Attack in Delhi’s Tihar Jail on the Cow Protectionist Sadhus),
    Kalyan
    , August 1967, p. 1146–47.
  73. Dharmlal Singh to Poddar, 14 July 1967 and 30 May 1968. Poddar Papers.
  74. Statement of Accounts of Sarvadaliya Gorakhsa Maha Abhiyan Samiti from the beginning to 31 August 1967. Poddar Papers.
  75. Hitsharan Sharma to Poddar, 19 August 1967. Poddar Papers.
  76. ‘
    Padho
    , Samjho Aur Karo
    ’ (Read, Understand and Do),
    Kalyan
    , August 1967, p. 1149.
  77. Swami Keshavpuri Vedantacharya, ‘
    Goraksh
    a Kyon Aur Kaise Karen
    ’ (Cow Protection: Why and How To Do It),
    Kalyan
    , September 1967 pp. 1197–1200.
  78. ‘
    Sabu
    n Mein Gai Ki Charbi: Sarkarki Svikarokti
    ’ (Cow Fat in Soap: Government’s Admission),
    Kalyan
    , February 1968, inside back cover.
  79. ‘
    Charbirahi
    t Sabun Bananewalon Ke Naam Pate
    ’ (Name and Address of Manufacturers of Fatless Soaps),
    Kalyan
    , June 1968, pp. 1009–12.
  80. ‘
    Goraksh
    a Andolan
    ’ (Cow-Protection Agitation),
    Kalyan
    , August 1968, pp. 1227–29.
  81. Jaidayal Dalmia, ‘
    Gandhiji Aur Goraksha
    ’ (Gandhi and Cow Protection),
    Kalyan
    , August 1968, pp. 1130–34. The second and third instalments of this article were published in
    Kalyan
    , September 1968, pp. 1190–95, and October 1968, pp. 1242–45.
  82. Lo
    k Sabha Debates
    , Part II, Vol. III, Ninth Session (2–21 April 1955), Lok Sabha Secretariat.
  83. Jaidayal Dalmia to Krishna Chandra, 16 May 1968. Poddar Papers.
  84. Jaidayal Dalmia to Harikrishna Dujari, 7 October 1969. Poddar Papers.
  85. Jaidayal Dalmia to Harikrishna Dujari, 26 December 1969. Poddar Papers.
  86. Poddar to Dalmia, 15 October 1969. Poddar Papers.
  87. Raghunandan Prasad Sharma (ed.),
    Satat Sadhana Yatra Ke Tees
    Bars
    h (1964
    –
    1994
    )
    , VHP Publications, New Delhi, 1995, pp. 4–5.
  88. Manjari Katju,
    Visva Hindu Parishad and Indian Politics
    , Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2010, p. 5.
  89. Jaffrelot, 1996, pp. 193, 196.
  90. Sharma (ed.), 1995, p. 7.
  91. Katju, 2010, p. 23.
  92. Sharma (ed.), 1995, p.6.
  93. Apte to Poddar, 23 July 1970. Poddar Papers.
  94. Krishna Jha and Dhirendra K. Jha,
    Ayodhya The Dark Night: The
    Secre
    t History of Rama’s Appearance in Babri Masjid
    , Harper Collins, New Delhi, 2012, p. 44.
  95. Ibid., Prologue, p. 1.
  96. Ibid.
  97. Ram Bahadur Rai, ‘
    Babr
    i Masjid: Dhwansh Ki Rajniti
    ’ (Babri Masjid: Politics of Demolition),
    Yathawat
    , 1–15 December 2013, pp. 6–11.
  98. Singh, 1980, pp. 326–27.
  99. Extract of Poddar’s letter cited by Gopal Singh Visharad in Radheshyam Banka (ed.),
    Sant Hriday Poddarji
    , Hanuman Prasad Poddar Smarak Samiti, Gorakhpur, 1991, pp. 86–88.
  100. Singh, 1980, pp. 326–27.
  101. Singh, 1980, pp. 328–29.
  102. Seth Govind Das to Hanuman Prasad Poddar, 5 July 1955. Seth Govind Das Papers, NMML.
  103. Hanuman Prasad Poddar’s Speech at the Inauguration of Shri Krishna Temple at Mathura, 6 September 1958, pamphlet published by Gita Press.
  104. Seth Govind Das to Poddar, 18 November 1958. Poddar Papers.
  105. Singh, 1980, p. 329.
  106. Hanuman Prasad Poddar,
    Kalyan
    , July 1951, p. 1199.
  107. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, ‘
    Vartaman Gantantra Tatha Matdataon Ka
    Kartavya
    ’ (Present Republic and Responsibility of Voters),
    Kalyan
    , December 1951, p. 1516.
  108. Hanuman Prasad Poddar, ‘
    Vote Kiskon Dein
    ’ (Whom Should You Vote For?),
    Kalyan
    , December 1951, p. 1519.
  109. ‘Ushering in Ram Rajya in India: Call at Bengal Parishad’,
    The Times of
    India
    , 6 April 1951, p. 5.
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Pool Boys by Erin Haft
Lucy on the Loose by Ilene Cooper
Hush by Marshall-Ball, Sara