Lohri Festival: Remembering the Robinhood of Punjab, Dulla Bhatti alias Abdullah Khan Bhatti
Dulla Bhatti arranged girls’ weddings and also gave dowry to them. The famous song ‘Sunder mundriye ho!’ recalls his heroic acts.
Dulla Bhatti arranged girls’ weddings and also gave dowry to them. The famous song ‘Sunder mundriye ho!’ recalls his heroic acts.
Colonel Shaukat Ali Malik, who was honoured by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose with […]
Major General Shah Nawaz Khan, who was one of the Generals in the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj), was born on 24 January 1914 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. His father Tikka Khan was a high-ranking official in the British Indian Army.
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Syed Mir Nisar Ali was so courageous that he even informed the East India Company officials and police about his attacks in advance. His courageous approach attracted the poor towards him.
The Farazi movement was active for about half a century and later it continued to influence the freedom movement for another half a century. Haji Shariatullah, the guiding light of the Farazi movement, passed away in 1839.
Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew, hailed as the ‘Hero of Jallianwala Bagh’, was born on 15 January 1888 in Faridkot in Punjab state.
Tipu Sultan, the ‘Tiger of Mysore’, was a great visionary who exposed the expansionist designs of the British imperial forces and gave a clarion call to his fellow countrymen and native rulers to unite and fight against the East India Company.
Hyder Ali, who is famously known as ‘the Napoleon of South India’ for his relentless fighting against the conspiracies of the East India Company
Mir Qasim Ali Khan wrote a letter to the council of the East India Company, protesting against the atrocities of the company officials and employees in May 1762.
The Nawab of Bengal Siraj ud-Daulah is remembered in Indian history as the ‘first warrior’, who sensed danger from the British and fought against them heroically
The idea of reservation to OBCs (Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs) came about in 1990 after the Mandal Commission recommendations were implemented. The reservation under article 341 defined only SC community and most of these Pasmanda castes don’t come under this identification.
“This is the Congress radio calling on 42.34 meters from somewhere in India,” spoke Usha Mehta after the Quit India Movement had been silenced by the Britishers.
Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan plays Usha Mehta in her movie Ae Watan Mere Watan.
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During the Bengal famine, Sahir Ludhianvi wrote a poem which has a couplet:
In 1839, Samuel Morse, reputed as the telegraph pioneer, laid the first telegraph lines connecting Washington to Baltimore. In India, the same year, O’Shaughnessy completed 21 miles of a telegraph line wrapped around trees and vast stretches which included a river crossing of 4 miles as an experiment.
Democracy is an occidental idea. A Hindu cannot comprehend it as long as he is a Hindu. It is against his religious belief. The divisions of Varna are the basis of his religion. He cannot see without distress a Brahman or Kshtriya serving a Sudra. A Brahman may beg or even may die, yet he will never touch a dish from which a Sudra has partaken food.
Allama Iqbal Letter to Mahatma Gandhi, declining the offer of Vice-chancellorship of Jamia Millia Islamia, Aligarh, 29th November 1920.
Why do we celebrate the Republic Day of India on 26 January?
Zafaruddin Bihari: A scholar and Former Principal of Madrasa Shamsul Hoda