Chitralekha Zutshi teaches history at William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. Her most recent book is Sheikh Abdullah: The Caged Lion of Kashmir (Harper Collins and Yale University Press, 2024).
Questions about how the Pakistani state would be defined and who could legitimately claim citizenship within it were intensely debated in the early years of the new nation.
Many students today have a negative view of Gandhi, based on a slanted representation that is widely prevalent online. It is challenging but fruitful to explore these views and expose students to a…
