Sixty Years of the Dussehra Rally: How Shivaji Park Remade Maharashtra’s Politics
A single public meeting in 1966 turned a cartoonist’s protest into a durable political institution—and changed the grammar of power in Maharashtra. The Meeting That Filled a Maidan Sixty years ago, Bal Thackeray was advised not to risk Shivaji Park. The Shiv Sena, founded barely four months earlier on June 19, 1966, was an untested […]
