CIPLA founder, Khwaja Abdul Hamied: A Great Indian Nationalist
Story of CIPLA founder Khwaja Abdul Hamied can be an inspiration for the persons who want to help the poor.
Story of CIPLA founder Khwaja Abdul Hamied can be an inspiration for the persons who want to help the poor.
Syed Ali Imam, who declared that the share of a community in the wealth of nation should be proportionate to its share of sacrifices in securing independence to that country, was born on 11 February 1869 in Neora village, Bihar.
From founding the Muzaffarpur unit of the Congress to leading the Muslim Conference, Shafi Daudi was a prominent leader of the freedom struggle in Bihar.
Jamia Millia Islamia is the only university whose teachers as well as students participated in the freedom movement. Described as the “Lusty child of the non-cooperation days” by Jawaharlal Nehru
Asfaqullah Khan was born on 22 Oct 1900 in a military background family in Shahjahanpur. He have a great influence on poetry and the bravery of Ram Prasad Bismil. When Bismil was declared absconder after the Manipuri conspiracy, Ashfaq was very keen to meet Bismil because of his poetic and revolutionary attitude.
He mobilized funds for construction of college buildings and hostels. He was passionate about it.
Reconstruction of Patna’s BN College building and its three storeyed hostel, the imposing building of the Science College (Patna), two storyed hostel for the Science College, the Patna College Hostel (later became famous as Iqbal Hostel), two storeyed PostGraduate Hostel of Ranighat (Patna), Patna Training College are his creations.
Besides, he also allocated fund for the buildings and hostels of the Muzaffarpur’s GBB (LS) College, Cuttack’s Ravenshaw College, Bhagalpur’s TNB Colllege, two big buildings for the Madrasa Shams-ul-Hoda, which was taken over by the government, and eight professors’ quarters in Ranighat (Patna) are also his creations.
For the cause of Urdu, he set up a Madrasa Board in 1922.
In 1920, it constructed two hostels, one named after Duke and another after Langat Singh but the Bihar Scientific Society and its founding Secretary, Syed Imdad Ali and the founding President, Mohd Taqi remains inexplicably un-acknowledged in the entire politics of the nomenclature of the college.
Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani, who fought not only against the British for freedom […]
Syed Mahmud was born in the village of Syedpur Bhitari, Ghazipur (UP). His father’s name was Mohammad Umar and his grandfather’s name was Qazi Farzand Ali. His ancestors had come to Bihar during the Lodis.
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.
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