द्रौपदी पांडव से द्रौपदी मुर्मू तक

The early Assamese nationalist leaders fervently exhorted the immigrant population to adopt the Assamese language. The historical link of the Assamese language to Sanskrit also elicited a sense of superiority among its practitioners by ‘othering’ the non-Aryan local indigenes as primitive and inferior, says Uttam Bathari

Lalu and Mulayam founded their own political outfits following the launch of a movement seeking implementation of the Mandal Commission report, and both defeated the Brahmin camp. That was in the 1990s. What was happening in Maharashtra at the time? asks Shrawan Deore

Leaders like Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav successfully united the OBCs. That mobilization brought the OBCs to power in the two states. However, the OBCs here became only politically conscious. For want of a parallel cultural movement, this consciousness did not last long, says Shrawan Deore