Begum Zohra Ansari sold away ‘Dar-us-Salam’ to raise party funds and worked for the victory of the candidates of the Indian National Congress and for the defeat of the candidates of the Muslim League, who wanted partition.
Kafir is the term used by Peshwa Nana Saheb during the revolt of 1857 for the British. In his proclamation to the people of Deccan, Nana said that Kafir British had destroyed Hindu and Muslim kingdoms.
Babur Arafat who hailed from Patna, Bihar, India, is also amongst the brave examples. Born on December 5, 1985, with an intellectual disability, Babur has also proven to the world that one can achieve anything they wants in life with sheer handwork and determination.
Shankar Lakshman, India’s pioneering goalkeeper-captain, redefined hockey with his daredevil goalkeeping, leading India to Olympic gold in 1956 and 1964. His legacy, a symbol of resilience and love for the sport, endures beyond the field.
In the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Jadhav stunned the audience by defeating opponent after opponent with ease in the first 5 rounds of bantamweight freestyle wrestling. In the sixth round the adept was asked to fight Soviet Union’s Rashid Mammadbeyov.
Sir Ganesh Dutta Singh (13 January 1868 – 26 September 1943) was an Indian lawyer, educationist and administrator during the British Raj. He did much to improve education and health services in the state of Bihar and Orissa before the independence of India from Britain.
Sir Viqar-Ul-Umara Bahadur served as the Minister of Revenue under his cousin Sir Asman Jah, the former Minister of Hyderabad, for some years, and when Asman Jah resigned from the post, in 1893, Sir Vikar was appointed as the Prime Minister of Hyderabad in the latter part of that year.
Kafir is the term used by Peshwa Nana Saheb during the revolt of 1857 for the British. In his proclamation to the people of Deccan, Nana said that Kafir British had destroyed Hindu and Muslim kingdoms.
Tawaif and kotha were looked down upon in the Indian society and any man visiting them could face social boycott as well. A case study of Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari’s experience in early 20th century Delhi.
It is no secret that hand-spinned clothes and secularism became the cornerstone of Mahatma Gandhi’s movement. Gandhi was actually a fulfilment of Ganesh Kolhatkar’s prophecy made in 1868 that “those who wish to be remembered in the future history of India, ought not to shrink back from undertaking this work (of making clothes in India and boycott British made cloth)”.
In the areas where war is waged or which the Japanese occupy or where they infiltrate, the foreigner’s civil rule will weaken or come to an end. In these areas we must establish a Swaraj Government. In the name of this Government we must appeal to retreating units of the Indian Army to stay behind and become the people’s army.
He stayed in America for nearly eight years and studied at five different Universities. He started as a student of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and then devoted years to the study of Biology, Psychology, Economics and Sociology. He had several times interrupted his studies in order to earn enough to carry on at his University for a term or two. He had worked as a farm labourer for ten hours a day, as a packer in a jam factory, as a mechanic in an iron concern, as a waiter in a restaurant. He had tried his hand as a salesman. When, therefore, he returned to India in 1929, it was not as a raw student looking forward to a comfortable life, but as one who had seen life at close quarters and was fully determined to devote himself to public life.
