The apocryphal and the archival appear as the twain that seldom meets. This truism is particularly aggravated in India where archival preservation is a remote possibility, much less a responsibility borne by the state. Consider then the fate of UP politics, which has long been...

Introduction

Charan Singh was working on a manuscript The Rise and Fall of the Janata Party [1] during 1984-85 to present his perspective on the political events that led to the formation of the Janata Party, and the formation of the first non-Congress government in India at the...

Charan Singh was particularly concerned with the issue of privileged, urban groups wielding power in government services and public life in general. 

In the initial decades of his political life, the 1930s, he was primarily concerned with the rural-urban divide and the...

The Bharat Ratna announcement on February 9, 2024, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi honouring former Prime Ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh, alongside agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan, stirred nationwide discussions. While Rao's market reforms and...